Professional managers: an encouraging boost
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• An encouraging number of universities, polytechnics and colleges are aligning their courses with the requirements of the Chartered Institute of Transport's final examination scheme, reports the outgoing CIT president, Mr Dan Pettit.
In a statement at the end of his presidential year, Mr Pettit 'said that a number of higher educational establishments and colleges had applied for and been given total or partial exemption in respect of courses in transport management which they offered to students, thereby satisfying the educational requirements for Corporate membership (MCIT).
He recalled that one of his first tasks as president had been to announce the introduction of the Institute's new final examination scheme.
Mr Pettit, who is chairman of the National Freight Corporation, added that the NFC would increasingly be looking for an Institute qualification when recruiting management staff, both for the corporation and for member companies. The NFC, he said, would now make arrangements for management trainees to study for the new final examination early in their transport careers.
In addition to the compulsory Paper 1 in "Control and Organisation of Transport", candidates from the NFC member companies will be encouraged to take at least two and possibly up to three of the modal papers including "Road Freight Transport" and "Physical Distribution Management" and, essentially out of the discipline papers, "Management Accounting and Finance"; "Manpower and Industrial Relations in Transport", "Quantitative Method and Transport Economics".
Discussions are now taking place between the CIT and the NFC regarding the possibility of exemption in respect of some of the eight papers which the Institute regulations demand shall be taken, on the basis of the off-the-job training in the relevant subjects which the management trainees receive during their one year training course. This is additional to the exemptions at Intermediate and Final Level which a number of them already obtain in respect of their full-time educational studies.
The Institute's director of education, Mr Arthur Beckenham, is currently having discussions with large-scale industrial concerns with a view to integrating their transport and distribution management training schemes into the professional qualifying arrangements of the Institute.