FORTY-SEVEN surveyors across Yorkshire have achieved the high-valued “Chartered” status with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
They have all completed the RICS Assessment of Professional Competence, which is a tough two-to-three year period of structured training that includes practical training, experience and exams leading to full membership.
David Varley, RICS regional training adviser for Yorkshire and Humberside, said: “These new professionals have passed the most challenging of assessments to become chartered surveyors, many of them having already completed a property-related degree.”
They can now carry the letters MRICS after their name, which is the world’s leading qualification when it comes to land, property and construction.
This is maintained by RICS which, acts in the public interest, setting and regulating the highest standards of competence and integrity amongst its members.
Mr Varley added: “It’s especially gratifying to see so many surveyors undertaking the APC and passing the exams in the recession.”
Nationally, almost 1,000 hopefuls were entered for the most recent RICS APC – with just over 700 being successful. The pass rate of 73% compares with 63% for Yorkshire.
Mr Varley said: “It is essential that chartered surveyors continually update their knowledge and skills throughout their career in order to remain competent and do their job to the very best of their ability.”
