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Have Faith in the IET

So there, I said it.


Over the years I have been doubtfull as to the direction and culture at the IET. 


I started life as a sparky from Tottenham, I was placed straight into the managment of jobs and worked my way up the ladder as you do...


I watched updates to the wiring regulations change for what is seen by a majority (of the south east of the UKs shop floor sparks) as not for the betterment of the trade and devaluing an industry.


I joined the IET over 10 years ago as a member and started filling in the forms for IEng. Jobs being what they are nowadays (fire fighting poor design and programmes) I never got round to finishing it, I never had a mentor either, I am, and was deemed too controversial to support I suppose. But needed by employers to fix/solve problems .


Still this week I just got my confimation of CEng status....(yes yes yes yes) after the hardest form filling and amazing interview ever. The best part if I have no degree, no HNC/HND just 20 years EXPERIENCE!


Am I proud hell yeah, was it worth it, hell yeah, what will I do next? well I want to inspire kids from council estate that they too can break down the nay sayers and attain the highest level of their trade, I speak regulary at technical seminars and industry conferences and want to give back.....


That what the IET has given me the confidence, ability and gaul I never knew I had in me.. I am hoping theywill let me now be an ENG Tech assessor and a PRA / PRI if they will have me... and yes I have every confidence that eventually (and it is happening now) they will see the damage done to the trade by last few ammednments to BS 7671 and install a committe of non-commercially influenced shop floor representatives to direct it to the land of common sense. 


The interviewers were great and office support fantastic...


So the mesage is get involved and feed back in constructive if not direct way, and have faith in the IET.
  • Former Community Member
    0 Former Community Member in reply to Former Community Member
    These comments sound great.

    Congratulations to those that have made ECUK registration by the apprentice or practical route. One of my best uni-lecturers never attended university.

     

    IET should continue and improve the efforts of IIE and help PEs get registered at IEng or CEng even if they have not followed the pure university route.

     

    Being qualified is one thing, being approved by a peer review is another (this needs to be changed).

    If you are resident in the UK, working in a large industrial organisation, then you have a good chance of being accepted and registered for ECUK.

     

    The ECUK recognised BScs, needs to be re-evaluated, if you are not electrical, or pure mechanical, things start to be difficult.

     

    I had C&G Full Tech Certificate in production with an electrical endorsement and mathematics bridging for HNC entrance, 5 Years study, as part of my apprenticeship.

    I went on to study HNC with an industrial engineering endorsement. It was not possible to go to university without A Levels.

     

    After a change of career abroad, where I studied the equivalent of C&G in electronics and a taught master in nuclear physics, I came back to the UK and took distance learning BSc courses, in subjects that interested me for my then new atypical career in a field that did not exist elsewhere. My university granted me 30 ECTS for my HNC, nothing for my C&G FTC. ( as Roy has stated I had two distinct equivalents of two years university studies in two distinctly different courses), but only 30ECTS for university financial reasons.
    • This is commodification.

    • This is a problem with universities selling education for profit.

    • This is the same as selling CEng abroad for profit, which is the IET’s main source of income and prestige.


     

    Apprenticeship is the sort of engineering formation that gives the greatest overall engineering competences. It is now the main objective of political parties in the UK and Europe. There are specialised College / University combined apprenticeships springing up over the UK and in Europe

    Students can go from 16 with 5 GCEs to Master or PhD in the specialised domains.

     

    As Roy states and what I have been trying to put over in these blogs is that engineering is a practical trade, as is medicine, where a hard rigorous practical training is necessary to put into practice the academic theory.

    Medical training is also being put into question and modernised.

     

    The CEng contingent , who have only university and MBA or even no MEng at all, with little true engineering practice are in a position to criticise and block the PEs coming up to full professional registration.

     

    IIE had resolved this problem, but since amalgamation we have lost this procedure due to the CEng Electrical contingent, refusing change. In other PEIs it is even worse.

     

    IET members overseas will face different problems in registration of I Eng or CEng as there are no real IET structures or the structures are limited to major cities only. In this case, the PRA peer review interview, if it is not CEng electrical, risks to be a certain failure.

    I have this experience from other PEIs.

     

    The UK Engineering Report is under review; IET should consider all that has been said on these blogs and ensure that the future is secured for all PE s wanting to be ECUK registered.

     
    IET, ICE and IMec E have joined together to dominate the report approval, wanting to dismiss the remaining PEIs that comprise ECUK.

    (The remaining PEIs would have been what the objective of IIE was, an overall grouping of all PEIs)

    Secondly it is suggested that IEng and Eng Tech become one grade.

     

    This year is a year of change, MIETs in the UK should ensure that similar profiles to these PEs above who have been registered ECUK via the long route should be openly accepted in IET, and that all grades of membership are complementary and of equal status.,

     

    The statistics of the report are shocking for a professional registration system, where most Engineers are not registered, helped or encouraged. The ECUK system has failed.

     

    I feel that since 2006 IET has lost its objectives and taken the wrong route.

    People making comments here prove me wrong, but I believe that they are not the ones managing IET, they are only following IET directives.

     
    Does IET need new directives that meet today’s engineering challenge?

     

    It is clearly stated everywhere in Europe that to get back into the harsh globalisation contest, the only solution for Europe is well trained professional engineers and specialist workers and that apprenticeship with specific academic learning at all levels is the most efficient solution.

    It is recognised that the back bone of engineering is the IEng or equivalent, whatever he is called.

     

    John Gowman BA-MIET

  • Former Community Member
    0 Former Community Member in reply to Former Community Member
    These comments sound great.

    Congratulations to those that have made ECUK registration by the apprentice or practical route. One of my best uni-lecturers never attended university.

     

    IET should continue and improve the efforts of IIE and help PEs get registered at IEng or CEng even if they have not followed the pure university route.

     

    Being qualified is one thing, being approved by a peer review is another (this needs to be changed).

    If you are resident in the UK, working in a large industrial organisation, then you have a good chance of being accepted and registered for ECUK.

     

    The ECUK recognised BScs, needs to be re-evaluated, if you are not electrical, or pure mechanical, things start to be difficult.

     

    I had C&G Full Tech Certificate in production with an electrical endorsement and mathematics bridging for HNC entrance, 5 Years study, as part of my apprenticeship.

    I went on to study HNC with an industrial engineering endorsement. It was not possible to go to university without A Levels.

     

    After a change of career abroad, where I studied the equivalent of C&G in electronics and a taught master in nuclear physics, I came back to the UK and took distance learning BSc courses, in subjects that interested me for my then new atypical career in a field that did not exist elsewhere. My university granted me 30 ECTS for my HNC, nothing for my C&G FTC. ( as Roy has stated I had two distinct equivalents of two years university studies in two distinctly different courses), but only 30ECTS for university financial reasons.
    • This is commodification.

    • This is a problem with universities selling education for profit.

    • This is the same as selling CEng abroad for profit, which is the IET’s main source of income and prestige.


     

    Apprenticeship is the sort of engineering formation that gives the greatest overall engineering competences. It is now the main objective of political parties in the UK and Europe. There are specialised College / University combined apprenticeships springing up over the UK and in Europe

    Students can go from 16 with 5 GCEs to Master or PhD in the specialised domains.

     

    As Roy states and what I have been trying to put over in these blogs is that engineering is a practical trade, as is medicine, where a hard rigorous practical training is necessary to put into practice the academic theory.

    Medical training is also being put into question and modernised.

     

    The CEng contingent , who have only university and MBA or even no MEng at all, with little true engineering practice are in a position to criticise and block the PEs coming up to full professional registration.

     

    IIE had resolved this problem, but since amalgamation we have lost this procedure due to the CEng Electrical contingent, refusing change. In other PEIs it is even worse.

     

    IET members overseas will face different problems in registration of I Eng or CEng as there are no real IET structures or the structures are limited to major cities only. In this case, the PRA peer review interview, if it is not CEng electrical, risks to be a certain failure.

    I have this experience from other PEIs.

     

    The UK Engineering Report is under review; IET should consider all that has been said on these blogs and ensure that the future is secured for all PE s wanting to be ECUK registered.

     
    IET, ICE and IMec E have joined together to dominate the report approval, wanting to dismiss the remaining PEIs that comprise ECUK.

    (The remaining PEIs would have been what the objective of IIE was, an overall grouping of all PEIs)

    Secondly it is suggested that IEng and Eng Tech become one grade.

     

    This year is a year of change, MIETs in the UK should ensure that similar profiles to these PEs above who have been registered ECUK via the long route should be openly accepted in IET, and that all grades of membership are complementary and of equal status.,

     

    The statistics of the report are shocking for a professional registration system, where most Engineers are not registered, helped or encouraged. The ECUK system has failed.

     

    I feel that since 2006 IET has lost its objectives and taken the wrong route.

    People making comments here prove me wrong, but I believe that they are not the ones managing IET, they are only following IET directives.

     
    Does IET need new directives that meet today’s engineering challenge?

     

    It is clearly stated everywhere in Europe that to get back into the harsh globalisation contest, the only solution for Europe is well trained professional engineers and specialist workers and that apprenticeship with specific academic learning at all levels is the most efficient solution.

    It is recognised that the back bone of engineering is the IEng or equivalent, whatever he is called.

     

    John Gowman BA-MIET

  • Former Community Member
    0 Former Community Member in reply to Former Community Member
    These comments sound great.

    Congratulations to those that have made ECUK registration by the apprentice or practical route. One of my best uni-lecturers never attended university.

     

    IET should continue and improve the efforts of IIE and help PEs get registered at IEng or CEng even if they have not followed the pure university route.

     

    Being qualified is one thing, being approved by a peer review is another (this needs to be changed).

    If you are resident in the UK, working in a large industrial organisation, then you have a good chance of being accepted and registered for ECUK.

     

    The ECUK recognised BScs, needs to be re-evaluated, if you are not electrical, or pure mechanical, things start to be difficult.

     

    I had C&G Full Tech Certificate in production with an electrical endorsement and mathematics bridging for HNC entrance, 5 Years study, as part of my apprenticeship.

    I went on to study HNC with an industrial engineering endorsement. It was not possible to go to university without A Levels.

     

    After a change of career abroad, where I studied the equivalent of C&G in electronics and a taught master in nuclear physics, I came back to the UK and took distance learning BSc courses, in subjects that interested me for my then new atypical career in a field that did not exist elsewhere. My university granted me 30 ECTS for my HNC, nothing for my C&G FTC. ( as Roy has stated I had two distinct equivalents of two years university studies in two distinctly different courses), but only 30ECTS for university financial reasons.
    • This is commodification.

    • This is a problem with universities selling education for profit.

    • This is the same as selling CEng abroad for profit, which is the IET’s main source of income and prestige.


     

    Apprenticeship is the sort of engineering formation that gives the greatest overall engineering competences. It is now the main objective of political parties in the UK and Europe. There are specialised College / University combined apprenticeships springing up over the UK and in Europe

    Students can go from 16 with 5 GCEs to Master or PhD in the specialised domains.

     

    As Roy states and what I have been trying to put over in these blogs is that engineering is a practical trade, as is medicine, where a hard rigorous practical training is necessary to put into practice the academic theory.

    Medical training is also being put into question and modernised.

     

    The CEng contingent , who have only university and MBA or even no MEng at all, with little true engineering practice are in a position to criticise and block the PEs coming up to full professional registration.

     

    IIE had resolved this problem, but since amalgamation we have lost this procedure due to the CEng Electrical contingent, refusing change. In other PEIs it is even worse.

     

    IET members overseas will face different problems in registration of I Eng or CEng as there are no real IET structures or the structures are limited to major cities only. In this case, the PRA peer review interview, if it is not CEng electrical, risks to be a certain failure.

    I have this experience from other PEIs.

     

    The UK Engineering Report is under review; IET should consider all that has been said on these blogs and ensure that the future is secured for all PE s wanting to be ECUK registered.

     
    IET, ICE and IMec E have joined together to dominate the report approval, wanting to dismiss the remaining PEIs that comprise ECUK.

    (The remaining PEIs would have been what the objective of IIE was, an overall grouping of all PEIs)

    Secondly it is suggested that IEng and Eng Tech become one grade.

     

    This year is a year of change, MIETs in the UK should ensure that similar profiles to these PEs above who have been registered ECUK via the long route should be openly accepted in IET, and that all grades of membership are complementary and of equal status.,

     

    The statistics of the report are shocking for a professional registration system, where most Engineers are not registered, helped or encouraged. The ECUK system has failed.

     

    I feel that since 2006 IET has lost its objectives and taken the wrong route.

    People making comments here prove me wrong, but I believe that they are not the ones managing IET, they are only following IET directives.

     
    Does IET need new directives that meet today’s engineering challenge?

     

    It is clearly stated everywhere in Europe that to get back into the harsh globalisation contest, the only solution for Europe is well trained professional engineers and specialist workers and that apprenticeship with specific academic learning at all levels is the most efficient solution.

    It is recognised that the back bone of engineering is the IEng or equivalent, whatever he is called.

     

    John Gowman BA-MIET

  • Former Community Member
    0 Former Community Member in reply to Former Community Member
    These comments sound great.

    Congratulations to those that have made ECUK registration by the apprentice or practical route. One of my best uni-lecturers never attended university.

     

    IET should continue and improve the efforts of IIE and help PEs get registered at IEng or CEng even if they have not followed the pure university route.

     

    Being qualified is one thing, being approved by a peer review is another (this needs to be changed).

    If you are resident in the UK, working in a large industrial organisation, then you have a good chance of being accepted and registered for ECUK.

     

    The ECUK recognised BScs, needs to be re-evaluated, if you are not electrical, or pure mechanical, things start to be difficult.

     

    I had C&G Full Tech Certificate in production with an electrical endorsement and mathematics bridging for HNC entrance, 5 Years study, as part of my apprenticeship.

    I went on to study HNC with an industrial engineering endorsement. It was not possible to go to university without A Levels.

     

    After a change of career abroad, where I studied the equivalent of C&G in electronics and a taught master in nuclear physics, I came back to the UK and took distance learning BSc courses, in subjects that interested me for my then new atypical career in a field that did not exist elsewhere. My university granted me 30 ECTS for my HNC, nothing for my C&G FTC. ( as Roy has stated I had two distinct equivalents of two years university studies in two distinctly different courses), but only 30ECTS for university financial reasons.
    • This is commodification.

    • This is a problem with universities selling education for profit.

    • This is the same as selling CEng abroad for profit, which is the IET’s main source of income and prestige.


     

    Apprenticeship is the sort of engineering formation that gives the greatest overall engineering competences. It is now the main objective of political parties in the UK and Europe. There are specialised College / University combined apprenticeships springing up over the UK and in Europe

    Students can go from 16 with 5 GCEs to Master or PhD in the specialised domains.

     

    As Roy states and what I have been trying to put over in these blogs is that engineering is a practical trade, as is medicine, where a hard rigorous practical training is necessary to put into practice the academic theory.

    Medical training is also being put into question and modernised.

     

    The CEng contingent , who have only university and MBA or even no MEng at all, with little true engineering practice are in a position to criticise and block the PEs coming up to full professional registration.

     

    IIE had resolved this problem, but since amalgamation we have lost this procedure due to the CEng Electrical contingent, refusing change. In other PEIs it is even worse.

     

    IET members overseas will face different problems in registration of I Eng or CEng as there are no real IET structures or the structures are limited to major cities only. In this case, the PRA peer review interview, if it is not CEng electrical, risks to be a certain failure.

    I have this experience from other PEIs.

     

    The UK Engineering Report is under review; IET should consider all that has been said on these blogs and ensure that the future is secured for all PE s wanting to be ECUK registered.

     
    IET, ICE and IMec E have joined together to dominate the report approval, wanting to dismiss the remaining PEIs that comprise ECUK.

    (The remaining PEIs would have been what the objective of IIE was, an overall grouping of all PEIs)

    Secondly it is suggested that IEng and Eng Tech become one grade.

     

    This year is a year of change, MIETs in the UK should ensure that similar profiles to these PEs above who have been registered ECUK via the long route should be openly accepted in IET, and that all grades of membership are complementary and of equal status.,

     

    The statistics of the report are shocking for a professional registration system, where most Engineers are not registered, helped or encouraged. The ECUK system has failed.

     

    I feel that since 2006 IET has lost its objectives and taken the wrong route.

    People making comments here prove me wrong, but I believe that they are not the ones managing IET, they are only following IET directives.

     
    Does IET need new directives that meet today’s engineering challenge?

     

    It is clearly stated everywhere in Europe that to get back into the harsh globalisation contest, the only solution for Europe is well trained professional engineers and specialist workers and that apprenticeship with specific academic learning at all levels is the most efficient solution.

    It is recognised that the back bone of engineering is the IEng or equivalent, whatever he is called.

     

    John Gowman BA-MIET

  • Former Community Member
    0 Former Community Member in reply to Former Community Member
    Speak of the devil & he’ll arrive.

    How the changing apprenticeship landscape is looking to expand opportunities and improve standards By Sue Weekes : Published E&T on line Friday, April 28, 2017.

     
    • JG - Change is needed to register these apprentices in a modern respectfull Professional engineering register.

    • Not ECUK, Not CEng


     
    Quote ECUK:

    • ECUK has stated that IEng can be registered FEANI Eur Ing?

    • That CEng can be registered without a University degree.


     
    The Key words in this E&T article are:

    • April has seen one of the biggest overhauls of the apprenticeship system for decades

    • The most significant change is the introduction of the apprenticeship levy.

    • By 2020 all employers, including those who don’t pay the levy, will be able to use the Digital Apprenticeship Service to pay for training and assessment for apprenticeships

    • first time it means employees aged 24 and over can attract 90 per cent of funding for apprenticeship training (and there is no upper age limit).

    • Graduates are also eligible.

    • The other major change is that from April 2017, responsibility for apprenticeships has shifted from the Department for Education

    • to the newly formed Institute for Apprenticeships (IfA).

    • government’s commitment to developing homegrown talent

    • it aims to deliver three million ‘quality’ apprenticeships by 2020.

    • Quality is the key word here.

    • groups of employers, known as trailblazers, are working with institutions such as the IET to develop employer-led standards. T

    • hese will be introduced to drive up quality and ensure programmes are, and remain, relevant to the industry.

    • Semta says that putting employers in the driving seat of standards development is already leading to the creation of new “cutting-edge” engineering apprenticeship standards

    • half our workforce will reach retirement age inside a decade

    • there will be lots of demand from employers just to replace existing workers and

    • to upskill other workers to fill gaps left by retirement.

    • Semta is urging the IfA to keep recognised qualifications a core feature of apprenticeship standards.

    • “Engineering employers have argued and won the case for our industry to have continuous assessment and qualifications in our apprenticeships,”

    •  

    • Daniel reckons that if you are a hands-on learner or are good at problem-solving, an apprenticeship could well be the route for you,

    • but notes that he is also proof that it doesn’t have to be a decision between an apprenticeship or a degree.

    • “I am currently undertaking my HNC, from which I hope to progress into completing a degree in electronic engineering.


     JG : 

    The Future of the UK and Europe is modern skilled engineering in all domains by all grades.

    The Elitist Napoleonic attitude is dead,

    So should be CEng.

     

    A new PE register is needed and a new way of operating it and auditing it is required.

     

    John Gowman MIET

  • Former Community Member
    0 Former Community Member in reply to Former Community Member
    Speak of the devil & he’ll arrive.

    How the changing apprenticeship landscape is looking to expand opportunities and improve standards By Sue Weekes : Published E&T on line Friday, April 28, 2017.

     
    • JG - Change is needed to register these apprentices in a modern respectfull Professional engineering register.

    • Not ECUK, Not CEng


     
    Quote ECUK:

    • ECUK has stated that IEng can be registered FEANI Eur Ing?

    • That CEng can be registered without a University degree.


     
    The Key words in this E&T article are:

    • April has seen one of the biggest overhauls of the apprenticeship system for decades

    • The most significant change is the introduction of the apprenticeship levy.

    • By 2020 all employers, including those who don’t pay the levy, will be able to use the Digital Apprenticeship Service to pay for training and assessment for apprenticeships

    • first time it means employees aged 24 and over can attract 90 per cent of funding for apprenticeship training (and there is no upper age limit).

    • Graduates are also eligible.

    • The other major change is that from April 2017, responsibility for apprenticeships has shifted from the Department for Education

    • to the newly formed Institute for Apprenticeships (IfA).

    • government’s commitment to developing homegrown talent

    • it aims to deliver three million ‘quality’ apprenticeships by 2020.

    • Quality is the key word here.

    • groups of employers, known as trailblazers, are working with institutions such as the IET to develop employer-led standards. T

    • hese will be introduced to drive up quality and ensure programmes are, and remain, relevant to the industry.

    • Semta says that putting employers in the driving seat of standards development is already leading to the creation of new “cutting-edge” engineering apprenticeship standards

    • half our workforce will reach retirement age inside a decade

    • there will be lots of demand from employers just to replace existing workers and

    • to upskill other workers to fill gaps left by retirement.

    • Semta is urging the IfA to keep recognised qualifications a core feature of apprenticeship standards.

    • “Engineering employers have argued and won the case for our industry to have continuous assessment and qualifications in our apprenticeships,”

    •  

    • Daniel reckons that if you are a hands-on learner or are good at problem-solving, an apprenticeship could well be the route for you,

    • but notes that he is also proof that it doesn’t have to be a decision between an apprenticeship or a degree.

    • “I am currently undertaking my HNC, from which I hope to progress into completing a degree in electronic engineering.


     JG : 

    The Future of the UK and Europe is modern skilled engineering in all domains by all grades.

    The Elitist Napoleonic attitude is dead,

    So should be CEng.

     

    A new PE register is needed and a new way of operating it and auditing it is required.

     

    John Gowman MIET

  • Former Community Member
    0 Former Community Member in reply to Former Community Member
    Speak of the devil & he’ll arrive.

    How the changing apprenticeship landscape is looking to expand opportunities and improve standards By Sue Weekes : Published E&T on line Friday, April 28, 2017.

     
    • JG - Change is needed to register these apprentices in a modern respectfull Professional engineering register.

    • Not ECUK, Not CEng


     
    Quote ECUK:

    • ECUK has stated that IEng can be registered FEANI Eur Ing?

    • That CEng can be registered without a University degree.


     
    The Key words in this E&T article are:

    • April has seen one of the biggest overhauls of the apprenticeship system for decades

    • The most significant change is the introduction of the apprenticeship levy.

    • By 2020 all employers, including those who don’t pay the levy, will be able to use the Digital Apprenticeship Service to pay for training and assessment for apprenticeships

    • first time it means employees aged 24 and over can attract 90 per cent of funding for apprenticeship training (and there is no upper age limit).

    • Graduates are also eligible.

    • The other major change is that from April 2017, responsibility for apprenticeships has shifted from the Department for Education

    • to the newly formed Institute for Apprenticeships (IfA).

    • government’s commitment to developing homegrown talent

    • it aims to deliver three million ‘quality’ apprenticeships by 2020.

    • Quality is the key word here.

    • groups of employers, known as trailblazers, are working with institutions such as the IET to develop employer-led standards. T

    • hese will be introduced to drive up quality and ensure programmes are, and remain, relevant to the industry.

    • Semta says that putting employers in the driving seat of standards development is already leading to the creation of new “cutting-edge” engineering apprenticeship standards

    • half our workforce will reach retirement age inside a decade

    • there will be lots of demand from employers just to replace existing workers and

    • to upskill other workers to fill gaps left by retirement.

    • Semta is urging the IfA to keep recognised qualifications a core feature of apprenticeship standards.

    • “Engineering employers have argued and won the case for our industry to have continuous assessment and qualifications in our apprenticeships,”

    •  

    • Daniel reckons that if you are a hands-on learner or are good at problem-solving, an apprenticeship could well be the route for you,

    • but notes that he is also proof that it doesn’t have to be a decision between an apprenticeship or a degree.

    • “I am currently undertaking my HNC, from which I hope to progress into completing a degree in electronic engineering.


     JG : 

    The Future of the UK and Europe is modern skilled engineering in all domains by all grades.

    The Elitist Napoleonic attitude is dead,

    So should be CEng.

     

    A new PE register is needed and a new way of operating it and auditing it is required.

     

    John Gowman MIET

  • Former Community Member
    0 Former Community Member in reply to Former Community Member
    Speak of the devil & he’ll arrive.

    How the changing apprenticeship landscape is looking to expand opportunities and improve standards By Sue Weekes : Published E&T on line Friday, April 28, 2017.

     
    • JG - Change is needed to register these apprentices in a modern respectfull Professional engineering register.

    • Not ECUK, Not CEng


     
    Quote ECUK:

    • ECUK has stated that IEng can be registered FEANI Eur Ing?

    • That CEng can be registered without a University degree.


     
    The Key words in this E&T article are:

    • April has seen one of the biggest overhauls of the apprenticeship system for decades

    • The most significant change is the introduction of the apprenticeship levy.

    • By 2020 all employers, including those who don’t pay the levy, will be able to use the Digital Apprenticeship Service to pay for training and assessment for apprenticeships

    • first time it means employees aged 24 and over can attract 90 per cent of funding for apprenticeship training (and there is no upper age limit).

    • Graduates are also eligible.

    • The other major change is that from April 2017, responsibility for apprenticeships has shifted from the Department for Education

    • to the newly formed Institute for Apprenticeships (IfA).

    • government’s commitment to developing homegrown talent

    • it aims to deliver three million ‘quality’ apprenticeships by 2020.

    • Quality is the key word here.

    • groups of employers, known as trailblazers, are working with institutions such as the IET to develop employer-led standards. T

    • hese will be introduced to drive up quality and ensure programmes are, and remain, relevant to the industry.

    • Semta says that putting employers in the driving seat of standards development is already leading to the creation of new “cutting-edge” engineering apprenticeship standards

    • half our workforce will reach retirement age inside a decade

    • there will be lots of demand from employers just to replace existing workers and

    • to upskill other workers to fill gaps left by retirement.

    • Semta is urging the IfA to keep recognised qualifications a core feature of apprenticeship standards.

    • “Engineering employers have argued and won the case for our industry to have continuous assessment and qualifications in our apprenticeships,”

    •  

    • Daniel reckons that if you are a hands-on learner or are good at problem-solving, an apprenticeship could well be the route for you,

    • but notes that he is also proof that it doesn’t have to be a decision between an apprenticeship or a degree.

    • “I am currently undertaking my HNC, from which I hope to progress into completing a degree in electronic engineering.


     JG : 

    The Future of the UK and Europe is modern skilled engineering in all domains by all grades.

    The Elitist Napoleonic attitude is dead,

    So should be CEng.

     

    A new PE register is needed and a new way of operating it and auditing it is required.

     

    John Gowman MIET

  • Former Community Member
    0 Former Community Member
    I have no faith in an institution that couldn't get competent engineers in my field to assess me properly during my interview. I was of the assumption this institute was multidisciplinary but it is just bias toward electrical engineering. I am an Asset Engineer with a bias toward the design and construction of water trunk and distribution mains. One of the PRI's was from the oil and gas industry the other a Civil engineer. The one from the oil and industry asked 95% of the questions while the engineer who was suppose to be the expert in my field could only muster one technical question about taking into account surge in pipe design. That is the least of it, he kept on sleeping off during my presentation and was only fully active towards the end of my interview. To even find these volunteers was a problem because of my field but then one of them had the gut to assess me when he was half asleep through my interview, eyes closed and head down on numerous occassions (hopefully caught on cctv). While his colleague did the best he could and made me feel comfortable, he engaged me and asked me questions but the person who was suppose confirm if i met competence A & B was disinterested, mentally exhausted and going in and out of sleep. He wasn't force to volunteer and this is career he and IET have messed with. I will continue reviewing my legal option but this is unacceptable and unfair, the three points Collin Seller highlighted would strengthed my application are in my application and were demonstrated verbally and presentation wise. Is it my fault one of my interviewers was in and out of sleep and the other struggled to understand what i meant by structurally designing a pipe against ovalisation and hoops stresses in line with BS EN 1295, i showed my calculation and explained the theory with referenece to relevant code of practices and now they say i didn't, how?
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    Ref : Hubert Nomamiukor


    I have no faith in an
    institution that couldn't get competent engineers in my field to
    assess me properly during my interview.

     

     

    Hello
    Hubert,

    I know how you
    feel.

    This has happened to me
    three times at two other PEIs.

    I did not bother to
    register at IET as they let other PEIs walk all over them; blocking
    IET Members from taking mechanical positions, then they came to us,
    to march over 30 PEs, through the IET back door, and gave their CEO
    Honary Fellow MIET.

     

    You could ask the question
    – what do I expect from my PEI – IET ?

     

    The way things are going
    in the UK with lies and corruption being the menu of the day, PEI
    registration is not going to change for some time yet.

     

    I was lucky, I had no
    interview to join ITEME which went on to
    be IIE and then
    IET.

    I have always said that
    if an engineer is qualified and has proven experience, then he
    should be registered at EC UK and ECUK have confirmed to me that
    they agree, but have to follow PEI rulings.



    ECUK has PEIs that do
    not call for PE registration interviews.

     

    No – IET is not a
    generalist  PEI, it is Electrical and IT biased.

    It has only one IEng up
    for election against all those CEng.

     

    I’m afraid that not many
    who use these blogs will have any idea about what you are
    explaining.

    Let’s face it, pipe fitting
    is for plumbers not IET sparks.

     

    I have gone down your
    path or pipe line, I wrote the Natural Gas Pipe standard for EIRE,
    and with ASME, engineered the first PEHD Sea Water Power Plant
    cooling circuit for the Greek Government; and I’m not a piping
    engineer.

    Not counting, sea water
    desalination, nuclear power plant, car engine oil refinery
    etc.

    But that is not
    understood by these voluntary assessors.

     

    At my last interview the
    assessors were simply drunk, when I explained what I had done, they
    called me a liar.

     

    You need an ECUK PE
    registration to get a job in the UK. That is why you need to be
    registered.

     

    What do you get from
    your PEI – E&T ? Not much technical details, virtually
    none that concerns IET members’ work and very little that is not IT
    or electrical.

     

    I asked if any IET PE
    could tell me the difference between Fusion energy and
    Fusion power, as
    E&T has promoted this damp squid for years.    Result = Radio
    silence.

     

    I can understand how you
    feel.

    Complain.

    I would ask for an IET
    investigation and if you are found to be right to complain, I as a
    MIET would ask for these two persons to be removed from their
    functions. Their attitude is denigrating and
    ridiculous.

     

    IET and the profession
    need better than this.

     

    This is just another
    case to support my claim for the UK PEIs to get their act together
    and face up to modernity.

     


    John
    Gowman MIET