On 9/29/06, Brenda Aynsley <
bpa@iss.net.au> wrote:Donna Benjamin wrote:
> LA. However the down side is the low regard may ppl have for
> certification, and that it creates a barrier to entry. Jumping hoops is
> something you have to do to join ACS - I don't think we want that here.
>
>
may I correct this statement please.
You do not *have* to jump hoops to join ACS. Students can join by
simply being a student at uni or tafe in ICT/CS courses.
I'm not a student at uni or tafe, although I've been both in the past. I don't have time to go back to either, and even if I did I have nothing I want to do there.
That's a hoop. I haven't looked at the ACS in detail since before I went to uni, but my recollection is that as a student member, one is essentially paying for the right to be able to say that you're a member - you have no voting rights and no influence on the organisation as a whole.
Provisional associate membership happens on application when you have
completed an appropriate degree or cert IV at tafe. Then with a couple
of years experience on the job you regrade to associate member on
application.
- Completed an appropriate degree
- Or a Cert IV at Tafe
Cool, a choice of hoops to jump through this time.
- Then with a couple of years experience...
another hoop.
Provisional member comes to people who have finished an appropriate
course at uni.
another hoop.
Membership is available to graduates who have completed a Professional
Level Course and have at least 4 years' Relevant Professional Experience;
Two more hoops.
OR
to someone who can satisfy the Society that he or she has acquired the
Core Body of Knowledge through demonstrated equivalence and has at least
4 years relevant professional experience
*now its only the last of these that provides any hoops to jump through.*
Actually, no. They all provide some hoops to jump through.