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
P.S. The reason I get a bit pedantic about issues like this is because it's very common for laws to be criticised as over-bureaucratic (again H&S law is an excellent example) when actually it's organisations over-simplification of those laws - and often sheer blind panic - that is getting in the way. So I think it's good to encourage people to go back to the source legislation whenever something seems daft (or just, as in this case, potentially over-bureaucratic) - it's very rarely the law itself that's daft, although it is often too imprecise and open to interpretation. If only major tabloid newspapers would do the same...
I think if I hadn't taken up engineering I might have taken up law - I suppose that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing - although I don't think I could have coped with cases that were legally right but - to me - morally wrong (or vice versa). Good example here - all of my comments above relate to what employers do and don't have to do, not what I think they should do!
P.S. The reason I get a bit pedantic about issues like this is because it's very common for laws to be criticised as over-bureaucratic (again H&S law is an excellent example) when actually it's organisations over-simplification of those laws - and often sheer blind panic - that is getting in the way. So I think it's good to encourage people to go back to the source legislation whenever something seems daft (or just, as in this case, potentially over-bureaucratic) - it's very rarely the law itself that's daft, although it is often too imprecise and open to interpretation. If only major tabloid newspapers would do the same...
I think if I hadn't taken up engineering I might have taken up law - I suppose that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing - although I don't think I could have coped with cases that were legally right but - to me - morally wrong (or vice versa). Good example here - all of my comments above relate to what employers do and don't have to do, not what I think they should do!
