Table 150 What are the five most important challenges facing the training of built environment professionals in your country today? Country
Discipline
Challenge 1
Challenge 2
Challenge 3
Challenge 4
Challenge 5
Antigua and Barbuda
Architectural
No architectural institution in the country,
Cost of university education overseas
Australia
Architectural
Imbalance in architectural curriculum between history, practice, heritage, knowledge of codes and standards, and business skills
Planning
Global Warming / Climate Change
Providing students with the skills to work in a digital world
Ensuring effective consideration of First People’s Views
Understanding the complexity of Decision Making in a political context
Funding for programs
Bangladesh
Architectural
A gap between architectural education and the profession.
A gap between architectural education program accreditation and the international standards.
A basic curricular split between theoretical and practical teaching.
Marginal balance between creative and technical courses.
Graduates are not fully prepared with the knowledge, skills and professional abilities necessary to meet demands required by the current professional market.
Barbados
Planning
Need for accredited planning courses in region geared to local needs
Need to establish CPD as a mandatory requirement for planners in public and private sectors
Belize
Engineering
No university
Botswana
Architectural
Poorly skilled teaching staff
Unwillingness of private programs to comply with regulation requirements
Poorly resourced programs
Antiquated teaching methods
Planning
Lack of international exposure for students
Lack of variation of educators (backgrounds and experience)
Architectural
Relevancy and innovation
Technology
Funding
Planning
Balancing academic learning with professional skills required in the workplace
Attracting a more ethnically diverse range of students onto courses
Embedding inclusive design into planning courses
Cyprus
Architectural
Unemployment
Dominica
Architectural
Not adequate human resources
No relationship between college and DSA
Fiji
Architectural
Demand for study in the field of architecture
Establishing a education institution which can provide quality of education which can be recognised internationally
Ghana
Engineering
Hands on practical training
Lack of computer aided design methods
Canada
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Fees of courses
Embedding planning into pre-university education
Outmoded curriculum
Planning for climate change and rapid urbanisation