24th May 2010, 06:55 PM
BAJR Wrote:
Thats my thoughts
(personal of course)
I am MAAIS and I was MIFA so this is no shortcut, indeed the requirements were more personal, with me having to present work and then go to a panel and present my case.
That's fair enough, but hardly seems to be comparing like with like. In fact, the more the IfA broadens its remit the less the different levels mean anything. Why should a sh1t hot digger/GIS specialist/DBAer/whatever not be able to present a portfolio of their work, sit in front of a panel and be assessed on their own merits? Of course that would be pretty difficult for many other people - would a digger present their best context sheets, sections, and most worn trowel? This way it is making some things a genuine specialty with privileges and reducing others.
I quite respected the AAIS as a group that meaningfully represented (as far as could tell from the outside) a specialist group that would find it difficult to be compared elsewhere. In fact, I probably envied it too by comparison to membership of the IfA. Not any more. Why do they want to debase themselves and why are IfA member's not being consulted? I am one so i could probably find out but the IfA doesn't have a handy forum to ask questions on!