Starter Kit. Idea 500 of 500. Cluster 28
A licence-to-practise service for returning professionals: the doctor's, nurse's, engineer's or accountant's foreign qualification recognised at home, paperwork, exams and all, for a fixed fee
The mechanism, from the book
The first one through pays the whole price, and everyone after walks through an open door. These are the doors.
The first step
Pick one profession, say doctors, and write down every step a doctor trained abroad must take to practise in Sri Lanka: which body registers them, which documents it wants, which exam, how long each step takes and what it costs. Check the list against the rules the registering body publishes, then offer it, with the paperwork done for them, to 3 doctors abroad who say they want to come home. How many finish is your proof.
- Who pays first
- A Sri Lankan doctor, nurse, engineer or accountant working abroad who wants to come home and would pay a fixed fee not to lose a year learning the process alone.
- What leaves today
- A professional who cannot get permission to work at home stays abroad, and the country keeps paying to train people it then cannot take back.
Ask first
- Sri Lanka Medical Council. Ask what a doctor trained abroad must provide and sit to register here.
- Tertiary and Vocational Education Commission. Ask how qualifications earned abroad in a trade are recognised here.
Check before you spend
Confirm each step and document with the registering body for that profession before you quote a fixed fee, and never promise a result.
Find out these three numbers
- How many professionals abroad want to practise here again?
- What would one pay for the whole process done for them?
- How long does each step take now?
A comparison from the book
The Gulf. Chapter Sixteen
"record what was learned in Doha or Riyadh, and recognise it on return"
Recognition on return is the door. Make it a known path with a fixed price.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
From the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? by Dr Maheshika Halbeisen. The idea and the mechanism are the book's; this kit was written for the site.