General Naturopathic Council

Education and Training

The GNC Education sub-committee currently meets about 8 times annually. It is composed of representatives of GNC members who are involved with teaching Naturopathy or Naturopathic modules.

The function of this sub-committee is to devise the means by which a future regulator may uphold high educational standards in Naturopathy. It reports back to the main GNC board where final decisions are democratically voted upon.

The main work of the sub-committee revolves around the GNC Core Elements and Standards of Naturopathic Education, adopted by the GNC in 2004.

The work of the education committee includes:

Devising a CPD policy for the GNC (Adopted in 2007). This will become effective after regulation, and will feed into the Federal Regulators' generic CPD requirements for all registrants
Paving the way for National Occupational Standards (NOS) to be drawn up for Naturopathy (Adopted 2007); funding has been applied for, and work is anticipated to start in 2008
Devising an Accreditation scheme for Naturopathic teaching institutions and their courses; work well advanced, and the composition type of an accreditation panel adopted 2007
Deciding upon the criteria for the future Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) and Acquired Prior Experience & Learning (APEL) for registrants
Consideration of the pre-requisites to training

Click here to download a copy of the GNC's CPD policy which includes a list of what constitutes CPD

Education and Training

The work of the education committee includes:

Education and Training

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