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Two institutes look forward in their examination schemes
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THE examination results of the Institute of the Furniture Warehousing and Removing Industry (IFWRI) and the Institute of Traffic Administration (loTA) are of unusual interest this year. The IFWRI is making an all out bid to expand and improve its educational system and the IoTA has just completed the second year of arranging its own examination scheme. It is, moreover, a critical juncture for professional institutes with so much talk of co-ordination between transport examination providers and the likelihood of these examination awards counting towards the various grades of the Transport Manager's Licence.
The IFWRI examination showed a marked improvement this year compared with previous years. The first part of the examination—called the Estimators —had 78 candidates of whom 45 were successful in both or in either practical or theoretical estimating. This represented a slight advance on 1968 but in the final examination 10 passed from the 14 sitting. Even allowing for the small numbers involved, this is the best result recorded since the present final scheme began operation. Credit for this cheerful position must be given to the hard work of the examinations committee, the extension of classes preparing for the examination and the development of an advisory service.
There is still room for a good deal of improvement to be made in the Estimators' examination and it is interesting to note that the examiners in their report underline my own experience that the failures were more usually caused not through lack of knowledge but because of lamentable technique. The familiar lapses like misreading questions, poor arrangements for timing so that the paper could not be completed and many candidates rushing into words without the preamble of any notes or even thought, were the chief complaints.
The Institute is re-gearing its examination structure next year so that the parts of the former Estimators' Examination will be two distinct entities, as the Certificate in Practical Estimating and the theory examination will be named the Ordinary Certificate in Furniture Removals. The "final examination" will be entitled the General Certificate in Removals Management and in the near future the Institute hopes to provide a further mountain to scale by arranging a more advanced management examination course. All these changes are very much in accord with new trends in professional institutes and one hopes that the examination stages can be knitted together into the fabric of the various classes of licence for the TML.
The Institute of Traffic Administration's examination topped the hundred mark with 119 candidates, a most encouraging return in its second year. It is, of course, a small examination system compared with the Institute of Transport, the RSA Diploma in Road Transport Subjects and London University's Diploma in Transport Studies but the total is respectable and the examination is now held at eight separate centres in England. And there is suffficient strength for all the main parts to be repeated in a December examination as well as in June.
As a contrast to the IFWRI, the result in the initial part—the Graduateshipwas much better than the final awards for Associate Membership. Forty candidates were successful in all the three subjects involved in the Graduateship and out of 171 individual papers sat there were only 31 failures. Passes in both the Associate Membership Part I (3 subjects) and Part II (2 subjects) were achieved by only nine candidates and eight were successful in Part I and a further four passed the Part II subjects. In both parts, however, there was a one-third failure rate, calculated on individual papers taken. Clearly, the work in the Associate Membership needs to be carefully fostered. Greater experience will undoubtedly bring about a more pleasing result and like the IFWRI—and other examining bodies —more advice and guidance is needed in the technique of tackling question papers.
IN BRIEF ... SPARSHATTS
For some time a member& the Steels Garages Ltd., group of companies. the coachworkhrm of Sparshatts (Metal Bodies) Ltd.. Totton. Hants. has been re-named Steels ISMS) Ltd. Mr. D. W. H. Freer, who has been continuously connected with the company for many years. continues as managing director.