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PROFILE : My journey to Professional Registration - Innocent Gininda

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Innocent Gininda shares his journey to becoming a registered Professional Engineer (PrEng), emphasizing the importance of mentorship, early preparation, and understanding ECSA requirements. He offers advice to aspiring PrEngs, highlighting the value of diverse feedback and a positive mindset. My journey to becoming a registered Professional Engineer (PrEng) culminated successfully in November 2024. I was fortunate to begin my career at a company with a Commitment and Undertaking (C&U) Agreement with ECSA and a robust mentorship program. This commitment to training engineers to the standard required for Professional Registration provided me with essential resources and a structured path to track my experience against ECSA requirements. Early exposure to these expectations instilled a positive outlook on registration and solidified my desire to achieve this milestone. My views on Professional Registration have remained consistently positive throughout this journey. Working alongside ...
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NEWS: Structured workplace placement is key to skills development in the built environment

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The acquisition of professional registration is the result of a structured workplace placement and training programmes. This is the essential element lacking in the built environment to ensure the proper development of skills.


At the recent "Women in Engineering, Infrastructure, and Innovation" event, Deputy Minister Bernice Swarts of the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) highlighted the built environment sector's shortage of registered professionals. She attributed the shortage to several factors: aging professionals, an "untransformed" sector, and "bottlenecks" in professional registration processes. These factors further exacerbate the attraction and retention of professionals in the technical sections of infrastructure departments, negatively impacting service delivery.

Deputy Minister Swarts also emphasized the country's severe backlog of national accredited technical education diplomas. This backlog is further compounded by the need to accommodate numerous students from universities of technology who require trade qualifications and certificates. Swarts attributed this backlog to a lack of structured workplace placements and training. She stressed the critical need for more structured and targeted workplace placements, particularly for women graduates, to bridge the gap.

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