Education Committee

WCET EDUCATION COMMITTEE

2010-2012 Education Committee Chairperson

Carmen Smith

Australia

Carol Abboud, Lebanon

Pat Black, United Kingdom

Eva Carlsson, Sweden

Laurent Chabal, Switzerland

Pang Chak Pau, Hong Kong

Sonia Dantas, Brazil

Dorothy Doughty, USA

Heidi Hevia, Chile

Denise Hibbert, Saudi Arabia

Heidi Hongyong, China

Jeongh Hwa Kim, South Korea

Phyllis Kohlman, USA

Peter Lai, Hong Kong

Kai-Li Lee, Taiwan

Brigitte Meister, Germany

Susan Mills Zorzes, Canada

Farzaneh Naghibi, Iran

Vera Santos, Brazil

Pat Sinasac, Australia

Wida Sri Gitarge, Indonesia

Carol Stott, Australia

Gerlinde Wiesinger, Austria

Julia Williams, United Kingdom

WCET Education Committee Goals & Objectives 2010-2012

To ensure all ETNEPs and REPs given WCET recognition meet the standards and requirements of the WCET.

Objectives:

The Education Committee will:

Review all ETNEP/REP applications within 1 month of receiving them and provide constructive feedback to the applicants.
Update the guidelines for developing an ETNEP/REP ensuring all criteria for WCET recognition of ETNEPs/REPs are achievable, measurable and in accordance with best practice.
Determine if different guidelines/criteria need to be developed for online/distance education programs
Develop/adapt guidelines to reflect needs for online/distance education programs
Assist countries that have the infrastructure available to run a WCET recognized ETNEP/REP but need assistance with clinical tutors and/or educators
Identify strategies and services that the WCET could provide to countries identified as needing direct assistance with writing, planning and deve loping an ETNEP/REP
Develop competency standards as a resource for use by all ETNEPs/REPs to measure the student’s knowledge, skill and attitudes
Judge the posters at the 2012 WCET congress in Adelaide, Australia

Poster Evaluation - Updated September 2010