From the Accreditation Board
The Accreditation Board (AB) is pleased to announce the results of the 2024 accreditation exam held on Monday 12 August. Of the 58 candidates who sat the exam, 38 passed (65.5%). This is the highest pass rate since the 2012 exam.
The new Accredited Editors (AEs) are listed below by branch affiliation and alphabetical order of family names.
Aotearoa New Zealand (3): Anna Bykova, Andrea McKay, Lawrence Patchett
New South Wales, including ACT (9): Victoria Cook, Justine Dixon Cooper, Jessica Drummond, Emily Halloran, Rebecca Lewis, Tanya Moy, Ellen O’Brien, Natalie Sweet, Alistair Zealey (Jessica Drummond and Natalie Sweet are also members of the Canberra Society of Editors)
Queensland (12): Erica Bell, Mandy Chandler, Sarah Crespin, Bronwin Dargaville, Sarah Drake, Janette Ellis, Eleanor (Ellie) Gleeson, Nadine Hunt, Lois Jewell, Angie Martin, Christine Tozer, Timothy (Tim) Youngs
South Australia (3): Kate Miegel, Derek Chamberlain (Japan), Hannah Maddison-Harris (Northern Territory)
Victoria (9): Christopher Allan, Liz Atkinson, Lisa Davis, Rebecca Fletcher, Shannon Haintz, Penelope (Penny) Hayes, Sandra McLaren, Fiona Ransom, Adam vanLangenberg
Western Australia (2): Stephanie Davis, Liam Selby
Note: No editors from Tasmania sat the 2024 exam.
The AB congratulates the 38 new AEs on achieving this career milestone. You are now counted among the 365 current AEs listed on the IPEd website and the 541 editors who have ever been accredited since the exam was introduced in 2008.
We also commiserate with the 20 editors who did not pass the exam this year. If you are among those 20, you might be wondering, what now? In our other article this month, we’ve compiled some tips and takeaways that might help.
A big thanks to everyone involved in this year’s exam: the writing team, the administration team (including exam coordinators and invigilators), the marking team, and of course all the candidates. We couldn’t run the exam without you!