Beagle wrote:
Regarding FI revalidations, until comparatively recently I was highly sceptical of the FIEs' concerns about the previous revalidation requirements. But having seem how minimal both the knowledge and interest were from some FIs at a recent seminar, I now have to concede that the dismal standard of some makes a requirement for alternate mandatory revalidations by test inevitable.
Sorry if this is a bit of a sideline off topic, but I'm not sure the solution addresses the problem! What you 'saw' surely isn't automatically 'fixed' by revalidation by test! It's better fixed firstly by having better FI initial courses, and revalidation seminars with a genuine pass/fail element rather than the ability to stay in one location for 2 successive days!
What you 'saw' surely should be sounding alarm bells that the genie is probably out of the bottle with instructors moving out of 'restricted' category as almost an automatic right.
I think the time and effort put into arguing the case for re-introducing testing would have been far better spent arguing for a proper course and promotion test for FI upgrades!