Genghis, I'm sorry. I didn't realise you were black, and you're still working in 1980s South Africa.
Women never used to have the vote, and now they're allowed to buy their own washing machines without supervision. Whatever next??
Anyway, back on thread.....
Originally Posted by Genghis the Engineer
In the meantime, anybody can call themselves an FTE, TP, Doctor, Nurse, accountant.... That's inavoidable, the problem lays with anybody then employing them.
G
Actually, the point I was making is that there is a formal qualification route to identify a Doctor from his formal training and accreditation. If a Doctor is not qualified he is not a Doctor. If he is qualified and turns out to be rubbish he is struck off, BY THE GOVERNING BODY. Any monkey can call themselves a TP/FTE, and there is no governing body to set the standards, only a company who chooses whether to continue to employ him.
As to the rest of your post, I agree, that at the moment TPs/FTEs are accredited by their companies only. The same companies that, by your explanation are small and probably poorly funded. In my opinion these are probably not the best people to also be regulating their own TPs/FTEs.