Ian, I don't have the broader picture sufficiently (I've only recently become PRI, and anyway, would hopefully not allow such dilution from any of my interviews - hopefully that's not just naivety) to know whether what you describe is generally the case or not, but I fully accept that these 7 people are known to you, that you are presumably in a position to judge, so I accept that, in your experience at least, what you describe is true. If this is representative of the general trend, and in the face of it, you would have to assume that it is as it is probably a good random sample, then I agree with you, this must be highly detrimental to registering such people at the appropriate level. Whilst I don't advocate an excuse for everybody to start pointing fingers, inquisition wise, maybe it would be a good idea to test this out across the whole membership by seeking a quick straw poll, anonymously, of how many people in each member's circle, they judge to have been similarly "over-registered". Or maybe it needs to be only Chartered Engineers, so that we know they are all familiar enough with the standard that should apply. If the position is seen, by this method or any other, to be the case, it really does need action to address it
Ian, I don't have the broader picture sufficiently (I've only recently become PRI, and anyway, would hopefully not allow such dilution from any of my interviews - hopefully that's not just naivety) to know whether what you describe is generally the case or not, but I fully accept that these 7 people are known to you, that you are presumably in a position to judge, so I accept that, in your experience at least, what you describe is true. If this is representative of the general trend, and in the face of it, you would have to assume that it is as it is probably a good random sample, then I agree with you, this must be highly detrimental to registering such people at the appropriate level. Whilst I don't advocate an excuse for everybody to start pointing fingers, inquisition wise, maybe it would be a good idea to test this out across the whole membership by seeking a quick straw poll, anonymously, of how many people in each member's circle, they judge to have been similarly "over-registered". Or maybe it needs to be only Chartered Engineers, so that we know they are all familiar enough with the standard that should apply. If the position is seen, by this method or any other, to be the case, it really does need action to address it
