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• What has gone wrong this year with the CPC exam?
The shooting season has surely started early as it does not usually start until May through to September.
Last May A Robertson wrote to you about failing to obtain a transport manager's position through your column, and I advised him to take the CIT and loTA education exams as these are all-important in today's transport industry (CM 4-10 May 1989).
The only other advice I have to offer is to keep on trying. I did, and I am now back in management.
It also pleased me to see a letter from John Macaulay of the Stevenson College, Edinburgh (CM 15-21 March) regarding the dubious results of some extra centres holding the CPC exam.
Having sat all four CPC ex ams at Stevenson College and gained passes, plus a special award for being the first student (mature at that) to pass all four papers by Home Study Units (CM 13-19 August 1987), I heartily back Mr Macaulay on his letter. Questions are always being asked about the CPC exam, but no-one seems prepared to do anything about it.
When it comes down to it, if you gain entry into a transport institute as a member through one of the non-transport institutes, that is acceptable to grant you full membership and you will, on application, be given a CPC..
Surely, this is wrong and just as dangerous to the transport industry as a person obtaining a CPC through false pretences.
Jas M Menzies,
Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.