I am pleased to announde that I will give a Keynote on March 30th, at the annual conference of Further Education and Training Colleges Colleges Ireland. The conference theme is ‘Leading Learning for Skills Development’. The focus will be on the question as how to incorporate the work placement element of FET into integrated programmes of learning for skills development. The theme of my talk will be on Professional Competence and Skills Development and will focus on how to structure the work placement element of FET programmes to – in the end – enhance learning for skills development.