An interesting set of comments  here then Tony! I have an original certificate from the IEE, which states that I am a member and a Chartered Electrical Engineer. When I joined I was expected to have a suitable degree, and experience of the kind of work I carried out available for the interview.

Some number of years later the IEE joined up with the IERE, and later still started to take money for membership without electrical qualifications, from software persons and all manner of others. At this time the whole organisation was taken over by academics, (Note the Presidents over the years) and the only Electrical thing they did was publish the Wiring Regulations, and have a few staff to overlook this operation. You will see from the E&T publication that electrical matters take very little of the space, and technology press releases, glossy photos of "products" and Greenism have taken over. For some reason we do not have articles on the problems that the Country now has on energy (Gas and Electricity) or the foolish and uninformed Green rules from politicians, which are endless and are going to take this Country into a very dark place very soon (Pun intended!). It does have very poor articles on "Climate Change" as this appears to be part of the IET agenda, despite needing a good airing of the Science, or lack of it, behind the whole propaganda, curiously just like the Covid scare.

Engineering of all kinds is based on hard science, yet our magazine contains very little or none. They still want our money, but it is difficult to see what the IET provide in return. I do EICRs and have all the qualifications to back them up, including 2391 when it was a hurdle that very few could pass. It required a solid basis of knowledge, unlike the current version, because someone said that it was too difficult. This was for many good reasons, and the results show from reading the many efforts that I have collected from others!

An interesting set of comments  here then Tony! I have an original certificate from the IEE, which states that I am a member and a Chartered Electrical Engineer. When I joined I was expected to have a suitable degree, and experience of the kind of work I carried out available for the interview.

Some number of years later the IEE joined up with the IERE, and later still started to take money for membership without electrical qualifications, from software persons and all manner of others. At this time the whole organisation was taken over by academics, (Note the Presidents over the years) and the only Electrical thing they did was publish the Wiring Regulations, and have a few staff to overlook this operation. You will see from the E&T publication that electrical matters take very little of the space, and technology press releases, glossy photos of "products" and Greenism have taken over. For some reason we do not have articles on the problems that the Country now has on energy (Gas and Electricity) or the foolish and uninformed Green rules from politicians, which are endless and are going to take this Country into a very dark place very soon (Pun intended!). It does have very poor articles on "Climate Change" as this appears to be part of the IET agenda, despite needing a good airing of the Science, or lack of it, behind the whole propaganda, curiously just like the Covid scare.

Engineering of all kinds is based on hard science, yet our magazine contains very little or none. They still want our money, but it is difficult to see what the IET provide in return. I do EICRs and have all the qualifications to back them up, including 2391 when it was a hurdle that very few could pass. It required a solid basis of knowledge, unlike the current version, because someone said that it was too difficult. This was for many good reasons, and the results show from reading the many efforts that I have collected from others!