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Registration
WHAT REGISTRATION IS A personal member’s grade of membership indicates his/her attainments in the VM profession and may be described in the following general terms:
However,
these grades do not indicate any specialist skills relating to particular
aspects of VM practice. The
Institute recognises that, for some types of VM assignment, specialist skills
are required and the community (individuals and organisations) looks to the
Institute, as an independent professional organisation, for guidance in
selecting VM service providers for such work.
Separate
from (and additional to) his/her grade, a Member or Fellow may be granted
particular recognition for satisfying specialist criteria in a particular aspect
of VM practice. The Institute
describes such specialist recognition by the name “registration”, because
those who meet the specialist criteria are included in “the Register”. Registration may be granted for only three years at any
one time, and it may be renewed by the registrant demonstrating that he/she is
continuing to practice in the specialist field and that he/she has maintained
the specialist expertise through continuing professional development in the
field. The
Institute recognises that “in the long term”, a number of specialist
practice skills may emerge that warrant this kind of special recognition - that is,
recognition over and above those denoted by the grades of personal membership.
At present, only one specialist area of practice has been recognised as
warranting registration and that is the facilitation of participative VM
workshops. Also
“in the long term”, it is envisaged that the Register will be an appropriate
vehicle for denoting those educational programs in Value Management which have
been accredited as meeting the Institute’s educational aspects of requirements
for admission to the personal membership grade of Member. For
every category that is (or may in future be) included, the Register is
maintained as a “live” document, with the expectation that names and courses
may be added and deleted at any time, depending on when an application for
registration (or accreditation) is approved or expires without renewal.
For this reason, it is important that when any one obtains a copy of the
Register for a particular assignment or purpose, it is used and then immediately
discarded, with a new copy to be obtained next time one is needed. For
every category of registration (or accreditation) the Register carries details
of the assessment criteria used by the Institute, together with statements to
help community members have confidence in what a category of registration means
and what it does not mean.
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