The Week in Brief Podcast is your weekly guide to the latest news, issues, and events in professional licensing, regulation, and digital government. This week, Sarah and Paul discuss Pennsylvania's impending partial implementation of the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC), a new data sharing arrangement between Wisconsin and Michigan that could speed up license approvals in both states, and more.
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Regulatory policies are ever-evolving and differ widely from coast to coast and around the world. We keep a pulse on the active world of regulation and licensing.

Regulatory reform of the legal services sector appears underway in British Columbia as the province considers moving the regulation of lawyers, paralegals, and notaries under a single regulator. Ken Osborne explores the rationale for reform as well as the potential benefits of the single statute, single regulator model.
The Week in Brief Podcast is your weekly guide to the latest news, issues, and events in professional licensing, regulation, and digital government. This week, Sarah and Jordan discuss a review commission's recommendations to address Virginia's teacher shortage, suggestions from U.K. architecture leaders to do away with educational requirements, and more.
The Week in Brief is your weekly snapshot of regulatory news and what's happening in the world of professional licensing, government technology, and public policy. Massachusetts gaming regulators review applications for mobile sports betting licenses, Kentucky expands assessment options for teachers, and more in our weekly look at regulatory news.
The Week in Brief is your weekly snapshot of regulatory news and what's happening in the world of professional licensing, government technology, and public policy. British Columbia expands licensure pathway for internationally educated doctors, Ohio amendment could change the future of social work, proposal to reduce cosmetology licensure hours in Virginia sparks backlash, and more in our weekly look at regulatory news.
With the pervasiveness of social engineering attacks and other cyberthreats, occupational licensing bodies must implement preventive measures to make sure sensitive information is kept safe. Here we look at some different cyberthreats as well as basic controls regulators can use to curb them.
The Week in Brief Podcast is your weekly guide to the latest news, issues, and events in professional licensing, regulation, and digital government. This week, Sarah and Paul discuss professional licensing reform in Georgia, calls for AI regulation in the U.S., a recent influx of nursing applicants in Nova Scotia, and much more.
The Week in Brief is your weekly snapshot of regulatory news and what's happening in the world of professional licensing, government technology, and public policy. This week in regulatory news, the U.S. State Department begins outlining its plans for the use of AI tools, Montana moves to eliminate continuing education requirements for nurses, and much more.
The Week in Brief is your weekly snapshot of regulatory news and what's happening in the world of professional licensing, government technology, and public policy. In this week’s news, licensing backlogs in several states are preventing health care workers from practicing, Oklahoma advances bill to help citizens with criminal records obtain licenses, and an Illinois city debates installing licensing requirement for landlords.
The Week in Brief is your weekly snapshot of regulatory news and what's happening in the world of professional licensing, government technology, and public policy. In this week's news, Indiana wants better reciprocity agreements with other states, Alabama tries to nullify vaccine mandates, and a Utah chiropractor faces felony charges.
Every day of the year, Ascend Magazine tracks new and ongoing news, issues, and events in regulatory licensing and digital government. We went through all the stories in 2022 to bring you the five biggest themes we saw throughout the year.
As licensed professionals and regulators will know, continuing education is a critical element of the licensing process. Why do we have continuing education requirements? Who pays for it? And what lies in store for continuing education in the future?
The Week in Brief is your weekly snapshot of regulatory news and what's happening in the world of professional licensing, government technology, and public policy. The US and UK enable mutual recognition of architecture credentials, Canadian businesses in critical industries face penalties over cybersecurity measures, and more in our Week in Brief.
Regulatory transformation is not only about changing an organization's technology and processes; it is also about empowering and engaging its people throughout the journey. In this article, Rick Borges looks at the key role that people play as enablers of regulatory transformation.
The Week in Brief Podcast is your weekly guide to the latest news, issues, and events in professional licensing, regulation, and digital government. This week, Sarah and Paul discuss efforts from the NL government to allow out-of-province licensed psychiatric nurses to work in the province, new regulations for digital asset services in Texas and Louisiana, and more.
Whether you know it as occupational regulation, occupational licensing, or professional licensing, chances are you are affected by it. In this foundational piece, Ariel Visconti provides a back-to-basics introduction to the world of occupational regulation.
Advocates of universal license recognition say that it can alleviate labor shortages and help skilled workers start practicing faster. But opponents argue that taking a "one-size-fits-all" approach can dilute or eliminate licensing requirements that exist to protect the public. We take a deeper look at the policy and its implementation.

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Review commission identifies barriers to entry for Virginia teachers: Weekly regulatory news

The Week in Brief is your weekly snapshot of regulatory news and what's happening in the world of professional licensing, government technology, and public policy.
This week in regulatory news, a review commission identifies barriers to licensure amidst Virginia’s statewide teacher shortage, a U.K. architecture board recommends reforming educational requirements, and more.

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