27th November 2008, 03:40 PM
Correct, but nobody can describe themselves in any way as an architect (for example) unless they are one.
This is why you see ads in local papers for house extensions and loft conversions by "architectural consultants". This is to avoid the use of the word "architect". Commercial clients for "proper" jobs will invariably go for qualified chartered status. Of course not every individual within (say) an architectural practice will be an architect: often only minority.
This could have direct parallels in archaeology: not everyone need have chartered status. I can see it would rankle however if "diggers" were not allowed to call themseleves archaeologists!
More to the point I don't see this having any effect on the present economic situation, which is a supply and demand thing.
This is why you see ads in local papers for house extensions and loft conversions by "architectural consultants". This is to avoid the use of the word "architect". Commercial clients for "proper" jobs will invariably go for qualified chartered status. Of course not every individual within (say) an architectural practice will be an architect: often only minority.
This could have direct parallels in archaeology: not everyone need have chartered status. I can see it would rankle however if "diggers" were not allowed to call themseleves archaeologists!
More to the point I don't see this having any effect on the present economic situation, which is a supply and demand thing.