Rules and regulations of Continuing Professional Education (CPE)
in the Philippines.
A Real Estate Broker in order to renew his license need to present upon renewal a Notarized Continuing Professional Education (CPE) certificate from a PRC-accredited CPD provider.
CPE
is all about and why professionals should continue to enhance their respective
professions. The aim of CPE is to enhance and raise the technical skills and
competence of professionals. CPE has now evolved to Continuing Professional
Development (CPD).
The
Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) has 46 professional regulatory boards
covering various disciplines. These boards are responsible in monitoring the CPE/CPD
requirements of their respective professionals, based on the mandate of the
1987 Philippine Constitution, R.A. 8981, otherwise known as the PRC
Modernization Act of 2000, and Executive Order No. 220, directing the Adoption
of the Code of Good Governance for the Professions in the Philippines.
Each
board has its own CPE/CPD Council chaired by any member of the board. It has
two members, the first is either the President or Officer of the accredited
professional organization and the second is either the President or Officer of
the association of deans or heads of colleges/universities offering the course.
The CPE/CPD Council is empowered to monitor periodically the implementation of
programs/activities. This is done to find out if the program or activity
submitted is implemented or not.
A
provider can be a natural person or a professional group or organization. A
program covers activities that will enhance the competence of the
professionals, and can be filed only by accredited providers.
A
provider or a program should file application forms for accreditation and pay
the prescribed fees.
Any
professional can earn CPE/CPD credit units for a training program (seminar,
conference or convention) that he/she attended, or served as resource person,
panelist or reactor, and facilitator or moderator. A professional can also earn
credit units for a subject finished for a degree, or the degree itself, be it
masteral or doctoral, and residency or fellowship. Moreover, he or she can earn
units by accomplishing a distance learning module or presenting a technical
paper or publishing an article in a professional journal. He or she can further
earn credit units by being the author of a book, monograph, or journal article;
as editor of a book or professional journal; as peer reviewer of a book or
journal article; as well as author of a research, innovative program or
creative product. If he or she has participated in a postgraduate training or
study tour, produced an invention or held a professional chair, then credit
units can also be accredited to him or her.
Currently,
there are two bills related to CPE/CPD, one pending in the House, and one filed
in the Senate, to further enhance the continuing education of the professionals
in the country.