15th October 2005, 04:01 PM
To quibble, (not like me, I know) for PIFA you actually do need 6 months experience with a relevant degree, two years without a degree. So what's wrong with being a PIFA until you can go for AIFA - it may be a smoother path to tramsfer grades than to apply straight for AIFA, I don't know.
I gather that the thinking is that Associates as seen as doing diiferent things to a Practioner, and is seen as having a higher level of responsibilty. Withing your grade you can be registered, thus formally acknowledged, as having certain spoecialist skills or experience.
To be honest I'm totally convinced that ANY grades are needed at all. You are either a member, or you're not, whether your degree is still wet or you have the chair at Oxford. Other professions have gone down this route.
There is spomething a bit disturbing about the thought of a wet degree though, or is it me?
Today, Bradford. Tomorrow, well, Bradford probably.
I gather that the thinking is that Associates as seen as doing diiferent things to a Practioner, and is seen as having a higher level of responsibilty. Withing your grade you can be registered, thus formally acknowledged, as having certain spoecialist skills or experience.
To be honest I'm totally convinced that ANY grades are needed at all. You are either a member, or you're not, whether your degree is still wet or you have the chair at Oxford. Other professions have gone down this route.
There is spomething a bit disturbing about the thought of a wet degree though, or is it me?
Today, Bradford. Tomorrow, well, Bradford probably.