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News Release from: Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 28 May 2003
New Technical Grade Of Membership at
ICES
A new technical grade of membership for commercial management specialists employed within the civil engineering industry has been introduced by ICEAS
This new grade of membership, namely the ICES Technical Member grade, recognises the skills and contribution of those who perform technical duties under the specialisms of both commercial management and geospatial engineering surveying within the civil engineering industry The ICES Education, Training and Membership Committee Chair, Robin Jones FInstCES comments* on the fundamental issues surrounding the Institution's decision to introduce the new Technical Member grade: "The recent A level grading fiasco has served only to confirm our suspicions that higher education in the UK is in crisis
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 28 May 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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In the latter part of 2002, the argument swung to top-up fees and the emergence of a premier and elitist university division." Mr Jones adds, "None of this is any comfort to either the civil engineering surveying profession or the industry in which we work.
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"To make up this shortfall, industry is taking matters into its own hands in three ways.
It is importing graduate resources from abroad, it is reviewing its commercial structure to ensure concentration of its graduate skill base into areas that actually require graduate skills and it is employing increasing numbers of non-graduates and training them to their own specific requirements.
It is to recognise and to assist this latter process that the Institution has opened a new technical grade of membership." Robin concludes, "In recent years, the Institution has been growing more and more concerned that a considerable number of important participants within the civil engineering industry may have been barred from professional qualification for academic reasons.
Within the ICES, this is no longer the case.
Furthermore, Technical Members can also advance to full corporate membership." The Technical Member grade has been introduced by the Institution in two stages.
It was first introduced for geospatial engineering surveyors in September 2002 and has been duly followed by the launch of a Technical Member grade for commercial management specialists.
Commercial management candidates who satisfy a range of qualification and experience requirements, as set by the Institution, will be eligible to apply for this grade of membership with effect from January 2003.
A successful applicant for the Technical Member grade of membership under both specialisms will be awarded the designatory letters, TMInstCES, and enjoy a wide range of membership benefits and services customary with a specialist and progressive professional institution.
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