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Time to create a new professional registration for Engineering Technologists

Peter Miller
The number of newly registered incorporated engineers continues to decline. The strategy of the Engineering Council is clearly not aligned to supporting the engineering technologist professional. Given the governments commitment to technical education the IET should create their own professional register to provide a relevant standard. It is obvious the current UKSPEC standard lacks credibility in terms of the IEng grade
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    Hi John,

    AM: it is perfectly legal for UK employers to insist on CEng if they wish - 



    JG: No It is illegal, it is discriminative as confirmed by ECUK 



    I think at this stage to be helpful you do really need to start quoting relevant laws please. The aim of these forums is to raise the level of understanding, and this is a really important point with significant implications for employers. The only relevant Act I am aware of is the Equality Act 2010 which we have discussed above. Although I know a lot about HR law* I am not an HR lawyer, so it is of course possible that there are other Acts (or provisions of Acts) I am not aware of. But having undertaken an extensive search this weekend - because I got quite interested in this, as I say this is a very important issue - I cannot find any reason why specifiying any UKSpec PR level would be grounds for discrimination.


    Thanks,


    Andy

    * when I was doing a lot of recruitment (and other staff managment) we didn't have a UK HR department so I had to find it out for myself!
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    Hi John,

    AM: it is perfectly legal for UK employers to insist on CEng if they wish - 



    JG: No It is illegal, it is discriminative as confirmed by ECUK 



    I think at this stage to be helpful you do really need to start quoting relevant laws please. The aim of these forums is to raise the level of understanding, and this is a really important point with significant implications for employers. The only relevant Act I am aware of is the Equality Act 2010 which we have discussed above. Although I know a lot about HR law* I am not an HR lawyer, so it is of course possible that there are other Acts (or provisions of Acts) I am not aware of. But having undertaken an extensive search this weekend - because I got quite interested in this, as I say this is a very important issue - I cannot find any reason why specifiying any UKSpec PR level would be grounds for discrimination.


    Thanks,


    Andy

    * when I was doing a lot of recruitment (and other staff managment) we didn't have a UK HR department so I had to find it out for myself!
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