Merger helped by ECUK developments

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Jul 28, 2003

It is becoming clear that growing appreciation of ECUK's role as guardian of standards for registration is enabling radical thinking on the future form of the profession.

It is becoming clear that growing appreciation of ECUK's role as guardian of standards for registration is enabling radical thinking on the future form of the profession.

"Discussion with representatives of institutions involved has indicated that decoupling of membership from qualification is central to their thinking on mergers.

ECUK role in supporting this is acknowledged", said Andrew Ramsay, Executive Director of ECUK.

The governance structure of ECUK has enabled growing confidence that standards can be maintained, without losing flexibility.

New approaches to the standards embodied in UK Specs contribute to this.

At the same time greater delegation of responsibilities to institutions through increased reliance on quality systems, backed by internal audit is proving a popular change.

Meanwhile IT developments, supporting direct access by institutions to record and register professional engineers, will ease the task of merging memberships.