Professional Review Report (PRR) for IFE membership ???

[Benzerari]

Like Scientology

Please let me know how Grametology gets on, this may help in Benzotology...

It's going to take minimum three months to get feedback of the PRR.

[Galeon]

'And its easy climb a ladder when is down'

[Colin Newman]

Benzerari, the requirement for the application to be supported by two corporate members of the Institution shouldn't prove too much of an obstacle.  Contact the membership secretary at the IFE and explain you difficulty in obtaining corporate member support for your application.  In most cases, the need for application support can be flexible.  In my case, the IFE accepted my application supported by two corporate members of the IEE.

Give them a call, it shouldn't be the show stopper it first appears.

[Mike Buckley]

Benzerari, some of your questions sound rather like self fulfilling prophesies. If fire alarm engineers don't join because there are very few fire alarm engineers how is their point of view going to be taken into consideration.

With regard to the dificulty of becoming a member of the IFE, there are various grades of membership which require different levels of qualification to get into. The IFE has always looked upon itself as a professional body requiring set standards, therefore they must examine the qualifications of applicants to decide which grade of membership is appropriate. Once you are in there are ways you can progress through the levels of membership and they don't depend on you being a fire fighter.

The other side is there are aways complaints that the fire brigade don't understand the fire industry and vice versa (just look at some of the threads. Here is an opportunity to meet the other side especially fi there is a strong branch with regular meetings. It is amazing how many 'major' problems can be sorted with a chat after a branch meeting.

"I would never belong to a club that would accept me as a member" Groucho Marx :-

[Benzerari]

Benzerari, the requirement for the application to be supported by two corporate members of the Institution shouldn't prove too much of an obstacle.  Contact the membership secretary at the IFE and explain you difficulty in obtaining corporate member support for your application.  In most cases, the need for application support can be flexible.  In my case, the IFE accepted my application supported by two corporate members of the IEE.

Give them a call, it shouldn't be the show stopper it first appears.

Thanks Colin for that

[Benzerari]

Benzerari, some of your questions sound rather like self fulfilling prophesies. If fire alarm engineers don't join because there are very few fire alarm engineers how is their point of view going to be taken into consideration.

With regard to the dificulty of becoming a member of the IFE, there are various grades of membership which require different levels of qualification to get into. The IFE has always looked upon itself as a professional body requiring set standards, therefore they must examine the qualifications of applicants to decide which grade of membership is appropriate. Once you are in there are ways you can progress through the levels of membership and they don't depend on you being a fire fighter.

The other side is there are aways complaints that the fire brigade don't understand the fire industry and vice versa (just look at some of the threads. Here is an opportunity to meet the other side especially fi there is a strong branch with regular meetings. It is amazing how many 'major' problems can be sorted with a chat after a branch meeting.:-

Agreed to some extend, Thanks Mike