Discussions
Upcoming events
- IPEd Council meeting (teleconference)(Event)(8 days)
- Society of Editors Victoria meeting(Event)(11 days)
- NSW Society meeting(Event)(11 days)
- NSW Society meeting(Event)(46 days)
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IPEd Notes June 2008
Council met in Adelaide on 31 May and 1 June. The completion of a busy formal agenda was preceded by a brainstorming planning session facilitated by Jim Hullick OAM, an experienced campaigner in such activities. The major outcome from this was a business plan for 2008–09 that accords the highest priority to implementation of the accreditation system. Other areas to be targeted by the IPEd Council during the year are publicity and promotion, education and training, and sponsorship and fund-raising. The priorities identified were further discussed in the Council meeting.
Prospective candidates will be pleased to read that Council has set the date for the first accreditation examination: it will be held on 18 October 2008. The examination fee will be $490 for current members of the societies of editors and $650 for non-members. Registrations for the exam will open in the first week of July and close on 18 September. Registrations must be accompanied by a non-refundable deposit of $100. For the assistance of candidates, a revised sample exam will be made available on the IPEd website by 30 June. Nuts-and-bolts details of registration procedures will be available on the IPEd website and will be disseminated more widely by other means.
To further its publicity and promotion objectives, Council established a Communication Committee (CommComm) based in South Australia and co-convened by IPEd councillor Rosemary Luke and Kathie Stove, formerly convenor of the now superseded Communication Working Group. CommComm identified implementation of a plan to publicise and promote the forthcoming accreditation exam as a first and urgent priority.
The seed fund set up in October 2006 to enable the establishment of IPEd as a formal entity (which happened at its registration as a public company on 22 January 2008) is now exhausted. The societies of editors contributed some $29,000 to the fund. An analysis, by broad category, of how the money was spent reveals that about $17,000 (59%) went to five face-to-face meetings and $4,000 (14%) to seventeen teleconferences of the Council, Accreditation Board and Assessors Forum, $6,800 (23%) to legal and registration fees, and the balance to promotion, subscriptions and all other expenses.
The notion that IPEd should have a patron—someone well known in the world of words—emerged during the abovementioned planning session. Several potential candidates whose names will be familiar to all were identified during the Council meeting and a small group was charged with implementing exploratory work.
Ed Highley
Secretary
