martine wrote:mefoster wrote:Make retesting compulsory. If people decline and leave then that's fine. If people are retested and fail then that's fine too. Why would any AD organisation want people who are not up to standard as members?It'll never happen though. Too much money to be lost.
Exactly.
We still haven't addressed the problem of actually retesting a significant proportion of 91,000 members every 3 or 5 years. There just aren't enough examiners inside the IAM or ROSPA. If full time professionals were employed the costs might put a lot of people off. Ideas please on postcard...
I agree with mefoster post above.
As regards testing and retesting, in in my view a professional organisation should have professional examiners and staff. I realise that professional examiners would cost more than the retired police driver examiners who are subsidised by their police pensions, however professionalism has to have its price. I'm sure the IAM's full time professional management are paid far more pro rata than they pay IAM examiners