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the standard of marine surveying across the surveying profession, no matter their allegiance to any particular membership organisation. The fact is most marine surveyors are not a member of any! It might be a fanciful goal, but one that I believe in and in which IIMS is increasingly playing its part.
Education & Pr of es s ional Qualifications
Under the direction of Vicki Loizides, we made some significant changes this year, moving the student intake from a set quarterly date to an on-demand basis. Our student intake numbers are slightly down year on year, so it is hard to know if this has played a part in that or not. We will continue to monitor the situation.
For various reasons, we withdrew our marine corrosion professional qualification following a review. This has now been completely reviewed and reauthored. Expect to see this essential qualification brought back to market on an on- demand basis in 2025.
The IIMS Professional Qualifications are currently being studied on a distance learning basis by over 200 students around the world.
One great success this year has been the roll out of the IIMS Professional Qualification in Commercial Shipping in Bangladesh. Following my visit to the country last year where I met the Director General Shipping, he was keen to put his weight behind our initiative to train locally. The result is we have 11 students enrolled locally and the education programme is being delivered on a hybrid basis.
T r aining initiativ es
There has been no let up in the volume and variety of training offered and delivered across the year. More attend as online delegates these days rather than in-person, but that is in keeping with the modern world. The network opportunities offered by coming in-person and spending time with other surveyors cannot be matched, however.
The first half of the year was exceedingly busy. After a lengthy absence of five years, I returned to Ireland with John Walker FIIMS and Geoff Waddington HonFIIMS accompanying me to deliver a two-day mix of theory and practical surveyor training to a larger than expected, enthusiastic audience. The Guinness was exceptionally good too, as it always is in Ireland. Our annual conference in Baltimore was once again well attended and attracted some first-class speakers.
Although only a small group, our UK inland waterways surveyors met for what proved to be something of a key gathering given the challenges that sector is currently facing.
Paul Homer HonFIIMS and I have continued to deliver quarterly online writing report writing seminars. Audiences have exceeded forty plus delegates at times and the content is well received.
The annual small craft training event in Palma, Mallorca also proved to be a great success with a diverse range of topics (some controversial) being covered, as was a later visit back to the island to deliver a one-day programme entitled ‘An introduction to Marine Surveying’ to entice and capture the next generation of surveyors.
In recent weeks we have concluded our autumn programme which has taken me to Scotland for our popular two-day annual event. The other training initiative of note to report was our second residential practical surveying course, held at
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