Discuss the contemporary requirements for practice in your occupation or area of work, and likely changes to those requirements in the future; consider how these changes are likely to affect older workers in that occupation (or area of work) in particular, and argue a case for how best education and training provisions can support the learning needs of older workers in that occupation.
Your assignment should include:
1. An account of the current requirements for practice in your occupation and how individuals are educated for that occupation and inculcated into it in the workplace.
2. A critical discussion of how and why those requirements are likely to change in the future
3. A critical discussion of education and training for older workers generally
4. An argued case for how best vocational and continuing education and training are most likely to be effective in maintaining the competence older workers in that occupation or area of work.
