21st November 2005, 10:45 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by BarnesyHaec olim meminisse iuvabit
I am not so sure I would look back on the suggestion with unretained joy!!
Sorry about the previous shortened mail. I seem to have come-up against the instant censor for using an inappropriate metaphor about small boys competing with each other over who has the....enough of that.
What I was going to suggest was that rather than further highlight the distinctions between IFA member grades, the IFA go to the other end of the scale and abolish all but one corporate grade.
Under my proposal, as and when you join the IFA you get 'MIFA' and a year after your name, so I would become 'MIFA (1986)' a member joining next week would become 'MIFA 2005'. The important information about my ability to subscribe to and hold to the Codes and Rules of the Institute would be seen in the length of time I had been a continuous member. Members would be expected to maintain a log of CPD and submit this for assessment on perhaps a bi- or tri-annual basis. (a bit like an MOT) to check that you are still up to date with both the job and the aims of the Institute. It would become a responsibility of RAOs to ensure that all of its archaeological employees had a CPD plan.
We could then move this rather nit-picky contemplation of angels and pin-heads onto other areas of IFA conduct.