SURVEYING IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM:
UNIVERITARY FORMATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
FIG COMM. 2 SYMPOSIUM, ROSARIO, ARGENTINA, 18-20 OCTOBER 2000

Educating Surveyors for Land Management
-facing the challenges of new millennium

Prof. Stig Enemark
Past Chair of Fig Commission 2
Aalborg University, Denmark
Email. Enemark@i4.auc.dk

Land management includes the management of land as a resource from both an environmental and an economic perspective towards sustainable development. The paper presents a global model for understanding the broad role of the cadastre in this area. The Nordic way is described, and the Danish evolution towards a global land management approach is presented.

Taking this land management approach to surveying education, it is argued that there is a need to change the focus from being seen very much as an engineering discipline. There is a need for a more managerial and interdisciplinary focus as a basis for developing and running adequate systems of land administration. The educational impact of this approach relates to both the structure and content of university curricula for surveyors as well as to the demands for updating of surveying professionals.

An interdisciplinary approach to surveying education includes the need to address the issues and problems in a full context just like the issues appear in the real world. The combination of different disciplines can be taught through a “learning by doing approach”. Problem solving skills can be taught through a project-oriented approach to surveying education with a focus on developing skills for “learning to learn”. The basis principles of this educational model are presented using the surveying programme at Aalborg University as an example.

University graduation should, however, not be seen as the end in itself but as only the first step in a lifelong educational process. It is argued that the challenge of the new millennium will be to establish a new balance between the universities and professional practice. This new balance should allow the professionals to interact with the universities and thereby get access to continual updating of their professional skills in a lifelong perspective.

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