Without re-writing UKSPEC, the whole "equal but different" thing is never going to happen.
When I applied for IEng a couple of years back, I had to read UKSPEC. It was quite clear that anyone who qualified for CEng would more than meet the requirements for IEng, because the requirements for IEng were less than for CEng across the A and B sections.
Personally, I don't have an issue with a three-tier system, provided that the first two tiers have recognition for what they are. At the present, only CEng has any real recognition, and there seems to be a vocal minority of CEng registrants who would like to not only keep it that way, but ensure that only CEng has any value at all. If a CEng is the only sort of "real" engineer, and an IEng is just an engineer's assistant, then IEng isn't worth having.
Without re-writing UKSPEC, the whole "equal but different" thing is never going to happen.
When I applied for IEng a couple of years back, I had to read UKSPEC. It was quite clear that anyone who qualified for CEng would more than meet the requirements for IEng, because the requirements for IEng were less than for CEng across the A and B sections.
Personally, I don't have an issue with a three-tier system, provided that the first two tiers have recognition for what they are. At the present, only CEng has any real recognition, and there seems to be a vocal minority of CEng registrants who would like to not only keep it that way, but ensure that only CEng has any value at all. If a CEng is the only sort of "real" engineer, and an IEng is just an engineer's assistant, then IEng isn't worth having.
