15th June 2011, 07:32 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:In many ways the Skills Passport would duplicate the IFA levels of competence (where the basic level would equate to PIFA and higher levels to AIFA and MIFA). I am guessing that anyone who had applied to and received peer recognition for their skills level through IFA membership would automatically gain a 'fully operative' Skills Passport.....otherwise it seems unlikely that the IFA would support the scheme...and then once again the scheme would be open to the criticism currently levelled at some IFA members (i.e they only attained their grading through colleagues, friends and relatives).... So to that extent it is a conundrum wrapped in a riddle etc etc....
Errrr, thought the skills passport was meant to be a realistic guide to someone's aptitude/ability/experience for practical skills? - I've had the pleasure of watching a MIFA site director demonstrating that he had absolutely no idea how to half-section a small posthile filled with black soil and cut into light yellow sand...at least he had the trowel the right way round I suppose...that was back in the days when it was the Institute of FIELD Archaeologists...what the h*** does an IFA grade tell you about someone's site skills? Needs to be totally independant or it'll just get the same flack from the likes of myself, I'm afraid
