Timeline for Architects Registration Board UK - Charging annual fee for use of protected job title
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| Jan 21, 2021 at 4:29 | vote | accept | JRT | ||
| Jan 13, 2021 at 9:10 | comment | added | ConanTheGerbil | Think yourself lucky, I'm a professional engineer with 2 degrees and 30 years experience designing power stations. My neighbour (with an 'O' level in metalwork) also calls himself an engineer, I call him a mechanic. | |
| Jan 13, 2021 at 3:18 | comment | added | crasic | What about other kinds of architects? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_architect | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 21:02 | comment | added | Francis Davey | @Qwerky "lawyer" isn't protected, though things like "solicitor" may be. But the legal professional bodies/regulatory bodies do rather more than just maintain a register of names. | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 19:15 | comment | added | Crowman | "it is for the protection of the general public that some job titles are regulated" - it's also for the protection of the practitioners themselves, since (1) they end up only in competition with other members of their own "club", who all have to play by the same club rules; and (2) the alternative to self-regulation is governmental regulation, which is generally considered to be worse (from the perspective of the practitioners). | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 18:59 | comment | added | mmmmmm | Also accountants and actuaries | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 18:43 | comment | added | Ross Presser | @JRT - well, with a licensing board, you have to not only pay an annual fee, you have to pass exams and complete CEUs each year, so the funding actually does something. | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 18:13 | comment | added | JRT | @alephzero yes. The beneficiaries of such registers includes the general public and it seems more reasonable to expect it to be funded by all taxpayers. Just to clarify, Qwerky and Ross Presser, it's not the existence of protected titles or licensing boards that I have an issue with - it's how they are funded that seems unfair. | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 17:57 | comment | added | Ross Presser | As an alternative to protected job titles, some significant professions have licensing boards. In the USA, to my knowledge, this includes all forms of medical doctors, chiropractors, social workers, lawyers. A social worker, for example, who is not currently licensed is prohibited from working as a social worker in nearly all contexts, but can still mention that they have a degree in social work. | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 17:24 | comment | added | Qwerky | Can anyone call themselves a Lawyer or an Accountant? Also lookup Dietician vs Nutritionist in UK law. | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 16:30 | comment | added | alephzero | Operating the ARB costs money. Your suggestion is equivalent to the ARB becoming a government-funded (and therefore government-controlled) institution. Is that what you want? | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 15:47 | answer | added | uɐɪ | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 14:49 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jan 12, 2021 at 11:20 | answer | added | Dale M♦ | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 7:55 | answer | added | user35069 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 7:20 | history | edited | JRT | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 12, 2021 at 6:51 | comment | added | user28517 | £119 is a pittance compared to what medical doctors have to pay in the UK... | |
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| Jan 12, 2021 at 6:46 | history | asked | JRT | CC BY-SA 4.0 |