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
Excellent points throughout, but I'm still struggling to see the answer to what I see as the key question in all this - what are the arguments that would make employers start demanding professional registration for all engineering staff? Or to turn that around, can we show that much wider use of registrations other than CEng would add real value to organisations, and if so, how? (I think I've given all my ideas on this back up this thread.) I think answering that would, to a large extent, steer any structural changes.
Excellent points throughout, but I'm still struggling to see the answer to what I see as the key question in all this - what are the arguments that would make employers start demanding professional registration for all engineering staff? Or to turn that around, can we show that much wider use of registrations other than CEng would add real value to organisations, and if so, how? (I think I've given all my ideas on this back up this thread.) I think answering that would, to a large extent, steer any structural changes.
