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Member Enquiries >> Membership >> Membership Administration >> Routes to membership
Awarding Fellowship
This enquiry looks at the Fellow Member grade.
Issues covered include:
- Eligibility requirements
- Evidence of suitability requirements
- Fees for application
- Annual subscription fees for Fellow members
- Enhanced benefits for Fellows
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Awarding Fellowship (April 2009)
Services for Academics
This enquiry looks at the services professional bodies provide for academics.
Issues covered include:
- Types of support/services provided
- Requests received for services for academics
- Value of professional bodies’ contribution to academic departments
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Services for Academics (February 2009)
Peer Assessment
This enquiry looks at the use of peer assessment in establishing a candidates suitability for membership.
Issues covered include:
- Stages in peer assessment processes
- Marking/scoring used
- Ensuring a robust and transparent assessment process
- Recruiting and training assessors
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Peer Assessment (December 2008)
Membership Strategy
This enquiry looks at how professional bodies segment members.
Issues covered include:
- Special Registers and other segmentations between members
- Defining a Chartered Member
- Methods of assessment for entry to membership
- Assessment for gaining Chartered member status
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Membership Strategy (November 2008)
Practical Experience Requirements
This enquiry looks at the practical experience requirements made of members.
Issues covered include:
• Current requirements
• Links between practical experience requirements and other requirements
• Assessing practical experience
• Motivations for practical experience requirements
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Practical Experience Requirements (November 2007)
Lay Member Recruitment
This enquiry introduces a service from PARN to assist in recruiting lay member services. Issues covered include:
- Charges for this service
- Information required of candidates
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Lay Members Register (January 2007)
Age Regulations and Discrimination
This enquiry looks at The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006. Issues covered include:
- The inclusion of an experience requirement in professional qualifications
- Whether employers will no longer make such professional qualifications a condition of employment
- Ensuring membership requirements meet the legislation
- The requirement for legal advice
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Age Regulations and Discrimination (December 2006)
Chartered Membership Grades
This enquiry looks at the professional assessments for Chartered Membership Grades. Issues covered include:
- Who the assessment is carried out by
- Recruitment and training of assessors
- Location of assessment
- International assessment
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Chartered Member Grades (July 2006)
Retired Members
This enquiry looks at retired members of professional bodies.
Issues covered include:
• Services for retired members
• Retention of professional qualifications
• CPD requirements
• Reductions in membership fees
• Policies regarding retired members who remain involved in their profession
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Retired Members (March 2006)
Criminal convictions
This enquiry looks at requirements made of potential members with criminal convictions.
Issues covered include:
- Required disclosure of criminal convictions as part of the application process
- Judging the eligibility of applicants based on the nature of the conviction and the time lapsed since the conviction
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Criminal Convictions (June 2005)
Competency Statements
This enquiry looks at defining competency/outcome statements that are met by initial qualifications or should be met by new entrants to a profession.
Issues covered include:
- Whether professional bodies define such competency or outcome statements
- How these were defined
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Competency Standards (March 2005)
Compulsory CPD
This enquiry looks at compulsory CPD policies.
Issues covered include:
- CPD requirements for membership
- Recognition of CPD
- Pros and cons of compulsory CPD
- Monitoring CPD
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Compulsory CPD (November 2004)
Fellowship Grade
This enquiry looks at the Fellowship member grade.
Issues covered include:
• Percentage of members that are Fellows
• Requirements/criteria
• Benefits
• Subscription fees
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Fellowship Grade (January 2004)
Membership Extension
This enquiry looks at a number of issues regarding widening categories of membership.
Issues covered include:
• Restrictions on membership
• Membership for non-qualified complementary or auxiliary professionals and their rights/responsibilities
• Student members
• Corporate partnerships/associations
• Corporate membership
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Membership Extension (October 2003)
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