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42-818: BINDT is a licensed member institution of the Engineering Council and a full member of the European Federation of NDT (EFNDT) and the International Committee for NDT (ICNDT). Their headquarters is located in Northampton , UK. BINDT maintains PCN ( Personnel Certification in Non-Destructive Testing ). PCN is a personnel certification scheme in NDT methods, welding inspection and condition monitoring , which

84-545: A City and Guilds award comparable to a level 4 qualification. The Incorporated Engineer (IEng) may obtain the Graduateship (GCGI) in engineering, comparable to a level 6 qualification. The Chartered Engineer (CEng) may obtain the Membership (MCGI) in engineering, comparable to a level 7 qualification. Engineering Council is a "designated authority" under the implementing regulations for Directive 2005/36/EC . It

126-630: A White Paper on the university sector, The Development of Higher Education into the 1990s . It advocated an appraisal system to assess the relative quality of research and foresaw a retrenchment in the size of the higher education sector. Both proposals were controversial. Joseph was the primary influence on the Education (No. 2) Act 1986 , enacted soon after his resignation as secretary, which abolished corporal punishment in most schools, established regular parents' meetings , and increased parents' influence in school governance. Joseph stepped down from

168-782: A by-election for Leeds North East in February 1956. He was swiftly appointed as a Parliamentary Private Secretary. Following 1959, Joseph had several junior posts in the Macmillan government at the Ministry of Housing and the Board of Trade . In the ' Night of the Long Knives ' reshuffle of 13 July 1962 he was made Minister for Housing and Local Government. He introduced a massive programme to build council housing , which aimed at 400,000 new homes per year by 1965. He wished to increase

210-633: A compromise plan was found necessary to secure consensus. The compromise involved the abandonment of Joseph's plan to levy tuition fees but preserved his aspiration to abolish the minimum grant. The resulting loss to research funding was halved by a concession of further revenue by the Treasury team. Joseph emerged unscathed from the Brighton hotel bombing during the Conservative Party Conference in 1984. In 1985, he published

252-681: A position that would facilitate a profound influence on Conservative Party policy. In Thatcher's Shadow cabinet , Joseph wanted to be Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer , but that was impossible since his notorious 1974 speech. Instead, he was given overall responsibility for Policy and Research. He had a large impact on the Conservative manifesto for the 1979 election , but frequently, a compromise had to be reached with Heath's more moderate supporters, such as Jim Prior . Thatcher named Joseph Secretary of State for Industry . He began to prepare

294-475: A royal charter. From its recommendations, the Engineering Council was established in 1981, watching over 54 separate institutions. It gained a royal charter on 27 November 1981. The first chairman was Sir Kenneth Corfield , followed by Francis Tombs, Baron Tombs in 1985, Sir William Barlow in 1988, Sir John Fairclough in 1991, Dr. Alan Rudge in 1996 and Dr. Robert Hawley in 1999. It formed

336-787: A series of speeches under the title "civilised capitalism", in which he outlined his political philosophy and hinted of cuts in public spending. At the Selsdon Park Hotel meeting, the Conservative Party largely adopted this approach. After the Conservatives won the election, Joseph was made Secretary of State for Social Services , which put him in charge of the largest bureaucracy of any government department but kept him out of control of economics. Despite his speeches against bureaucracy, Joseph found himself compelled to add to it as he increased and improved services in

378-473: Is a trade magazine for NDT, inspection, condition monitoring and quality practitioners. It is sent free of charge to its members and to PCN certified personnel. This article about an organisation in the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Engineering Council The Engineering Council (formerly Engineering Council UK ; colloquially known as EngC )

420-513: Is a member of the European Federation of National Engineering Associations (FEANI). Engineering Council has relationships with many similar organisations worldwide. It has responsibility for the UK sections of two international registers: European Engineer registration entitles the holder to use the European-style prefix title EurIng ; International Professional Engineer registration entitles

462-632: Is accredited by UKAS according to ISO 17024. PCN certification schemes for the major NDT methods conform to BS EN ISO 9712 (2012) . PCN condition monitoring certification schemes in Vibration Analysis, Acoustic Emission, Infrared Thermography and Lubrication Management and Analysis conform to the appropriate parts of ISO 18436. BINDT publishes " Insight - Non-Destructive Testing and Condition Monitoring ", which includes original research and development papers, technical and scientific reviews and case studies. BINDT also publishes "NDT News". This

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504-574: Is the UK 's regulatory authority for registration of Chartered and Incorporated engineers and engineering technician . The Engineering Council holds the national registers of over 228,000 Engineering Technicians (EngTech), Incorporated Engineers (IEng), Chartered Engineers (CEng) and Information and Communications Technology Technicians (ICTTech). The Engineering Council is also responsible for establishing and upholding globally acknowledged benchmarks of professional competence and ethical conduct, which govern

546-508: Is voluntary and candidates are required to demonstrate a high standard of professional competence acquired through education, training and responsible experience in order to register. There are four categories of registration: Assessment for registration is typically carried out on Engineering Council's behalf by a licensed member institution. The Engineering Technician (EngTech) may obtain the Licentiateship (with post nominals LCGI),

588-513: The Centre for Policy Studies writing its first publication: Why Britain needs a Social Market Economy . Joseph was born in Westminster , London , to a wealthy and influential family, the son of Edna Cicely (Phillips) and Samuel Joseph . His father headed the vast family construction and project-management company, Bovis , and was Lord Mayor of London in 1942–3. At the end of his term he

630-615: The Child Poverty Action Group . The notion of the "cycle of deprivation" holding down poor people was the basis of his speech. He linked it to current theories of the culture of poverty, especially to the chaotic lifestyle of the poorest people. However, he suggested that poor people should stop having so many children. In his highly publicised speech at Edgbaston , he reflected on the moral and spiritual state of Britain: A high and rising proportion of children are being born to mothers least fitted to bring children into

672-472: The Conservative Party , he served as a minister under four prime ministers: Harold Macmillan , Alec Douglas-Home , Edward Heath , and Margaret Thatcher . He was a key influence in the creation of what came to be known as Thatcherism . Joseph introduced the concept of the social market economy into Britain, an economic and social system inspired by Christian democracy . He also co-founded

714-507: The Liverpool riots . In response to Michael Heseltine 's regeneration proposal, Joseph suggested that there should be a "managed rundown" of Merseyside instead. Later, his private secretary asked for minutes of a meeting to be amended to remove reference to explicit economic regeneration as Joseph believed "it is by no means clear that any such strategy could lead to a viable economic entity". Joseph's 1976 speech "Monetarism Is Not Enough"

756-570: The National Health Service . However, he grew increasingly opposed to the Heath government's economic strategy, which had seen a 'U-turn' in favour of intervention in industry in 1972. Following the election defeat of February 1974 , Joseph worked with Margaret Thatcher to set up the Centre for Policy Studies , a think-tank to develop policies for the new free-market Conservatism that they both favoured. Joseph became interested in

798-655: The WISE Campaign in 1983 to encourage women to become engineers. In 1996, the diamond logo was replaced by a circle. Engineering Council is recognised by the British Government as the national representative body of the engineering profession in the United Kingdom, working in partnership with other engineering institutions. The Engineering Council regulates the professions of chartered engineer, incorporated engineer and engineering technician in

840-444: The post-war consensus of a welfare state with strong labour unions. Their policies to stabilise the economy retained government control on industries and created an intricate system to control wages and dividends. In the eyes of Thatcher and Joseph, that pragmatic approach was contrary to the true "Conservative" ideology. As he had done a great deal to promote Thatcher, when she won the leadership in 1975 , she determined to put him in

882-739: The Cabinet in 1986, and retired from Parliament at the 1987 election . He was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1986. He received a life peerage in the dissolution honours, being created Baron Joseph , of Portsoken in the City of London on 12 October 1987. Joseph died on 10 December 1994. At the end of 2011, the release of confidential documents under the UK Government's 30-year rule revealed Joseph's thoughts regarding

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924-533: The Carers' Movement , Joseph and Sally Oppenheim were critical in raising funds from the Carnegie Trust and other organisations, which enabled the carers movement to succeed and thrive through its formative years. Despite Joseph's reputation as a right-winger, Heath promoted him to Trade spokesman in 1967, where he had an important role in policy development. In the run-up to the 1970 election Joseph made

966-505: The Conservative Party that "it would have been a disaster for the party, country, and me", and he rated himself a failure in office. The Sir Keith Joseph Memorial Lecture is held annually by the Centre for Policy Studies. Joseph was married twice: firstly, in 1951 to Hellen Guggenheimer, with whom he had four children. They separated in 1978, finally divorcing in 1985. In 1990 he married Yolanda Sheriff (née Castro), whom he had known since

1008-486: The Conservative government in 1979, had cancelled the plans of Shirley Williams , his second-last predecessor, to merge O Levels and CSEs , but he achieved that policy. Although that was not normally the responsibility of central government, he insisted on personally approving the individual subject syllabuses before the GCSE system was introduced. His attempts to reform teachers' pay and bring in new contracts were opposed by

1050-451: The UK. UK legislation is generally 'permissive' and, as such, the title engineer is not protected by law therefore anyone can call themselves an engineer or professional engineer or registered engineer and many semi-skilled and unskilled trades adopt this title. However the 'professional' titles awarded by the Engineering Council are protected by law. Registration as a chartered and incorporated engineers or as engineering technicians

1092-502: The award and retention of these titles. This guarantees that employers, government bodies, and the broader society, both within the UK and abroad, can place their trust in the expertise, experience, and dedication of engineers and technicians who are professionally registered with the Engineering Council. Professional engineering institutions in the UK began in 1818 with the formation of the Institution of Civil Engineers . The IMechE

1134-596: The current Engineering Council and EngineeringUK currently carry out, as well as some others. Around this time, 33% of the UK's GDP was in manufacturing, lowering to 29% in the early 1970s. A royal commission, from the committee of inquiry into the engineering profession, chaired by Sir Monty Finniston , was set up in 1977. It looked at the formation and registration of engineers, producing the Finniston Report - Engineering our Future in 1980. Engineering institutions thought they may have lost their autonomy. There

1176-482: The economic theory of monetarism as formulated by Milton Friedman and persuaded Thatcher to support it. Despite still being a member of Heath's Shadow Cabinet, Joseph was openly critical of his government's record. In 1976, Joseph delivered his famous Stockton lecture on the economy Monetarism Is Not Enough in which he sought to discredit previously dominant Keynesian economic strategies and contrasted wealth-producing sectors in an economy, such as manufacturing, with

1218-423: The holder to use the suffix IntPE (UK) . The qualifications required for international registration are similar to those required for CEng registration. Keith Joseph Defunct Keith Sinjohn Joseph, Baron Joseph , Bt , CH , PC (17 January 1918 – 10 December 1994), known as Sir Keith Joseph, 2nd Baronet , for most of his political life, was a British politician. A member of

1260-455: The many nationalised industries for privatisation by bringing in private sector managers such as Ian MacGregor but was still forced to give large subsidies to those industries making losses. As Thatcher's Secretary of State for Education from 1981 he started the ball rolling for GCSEs , and the establishment of a national curriculum in England and Wales. Mark Carlisle , his predecessor in

1302-598: The proportion of owner-occupied households, by offering help with mortgage deposits. Housing was an important issue at the 1964 election and Joseph was felt to have done well on television in the campaign. In opposition, Joseph was spokesman on Social Services, and then on Labour under Edward Heath . He was one of twelve founder members of the National Council for the Single Woman and Her Dependants on 15 December 1965. According to Tim Cook's The History of

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1344-468: The right. His overnight conversion to free-market, small-government policies "had the force of a religious conversion". In 1975, he said: It was only in April 1974 that I was converted to Conservatism. (I had thought I was a Conservative but I now see that I was not really one at all.) This remark expressed Joseph's sense of failure during multiple Conservative governments that had automatically followed

1386-490: The service sector and government, which tend to be wealth-consuming. He contended that an economy begins to decline as its wealth-producing sector shrinks. Many on the right wing of the Conservative Party looked to Joseph to challenge Heath for the leadership, but his chances declined following a controversial speech on 19 October 1974. It covered a variety of socially-conservative topics and drew on an article that had been written by Arthur Wynn and his wife and published by

1428-431: The trade unions and led to a series of one-day strikes. In 1984, his public spending negotiations with his Treasury colleagues resulted in a proposed plan for extra research funding for universities financed through the curtailment of financial support to students who were dependent children of more affluent parents. That plan provoked heated opposition from fellow members of the Cabinet (particularly, Cecil Parkinson ) and

1470-465: The world ... Some are of low intelligence, most of low educational attainment. They are unlikely to be able to give children the stable emotional background, the consistent combination of love and firmness ... They are producing problem children ... The balance of our human stock, is threatened. The outrage, despite his repeated apologies, in reaction to his speech sharply undercut Joseph's campaign to replace Heath as party leader. The speech

1512-604: Was a Director of Bovis, becoming chairman in 1958, and became an underwriter at Lloyd's of London . In 1945, Joseph joined the leadership of the Post-War Orphans’ Committee of the Central British Fund for German Jewry (now World Jewish Relief ). Joseph failed to be elected to the marginal seat of Barons Court in West London by 125 votes in the 1955 election . He was elected to parliament in

1554-452: Was also the possibility of statutory licensing (direct government control) of engineers, as other professional practitioners such as doctors and architects, but the work of engineers is more confined to work with other engineering companies, providing a nominal level of inherent professional self-regulation against misconduct. Keith Joseph at the DTI chose not to have a statutory body , but have

1596-575: Was created a baronet . Joseph's family was Jewish. On the death of his father on 4 October 1944, 26-year-old Keith inherited the baronetcy . Joseph was educated at Lockers Park School in Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, followed by Harrow School , where, uncharacteristically, he did not do particularly well academically. He then attended Magdalen College , Oxford, where he read jurisprudence , obtaining first class honours. He

1638-415: Was described by Margaret Thatcher as "one of the very few speeches which have fundamentally affected a political generation's way of thinking". Joseph's political achievement was in pioneering the application of monetarist economics to British political economics, and in developing what would later become known as Thatcherism . He knew his own limitations, remarking of the prospect of his becoming Leader of

1680-636: Was elected a Prize Fellow of All Souls College in 1946. During World War II , Joseph served as a captain in the Royal Artillery , and suffered a minor wound during German shelling of his company's headquarters in Italy, as well as being mentioned in dispatches . After the end of the war, he was called to the Bar ( Middle Temple ). Following his father, he was elected as an Alderman of the City of London. He

1722-588: Was formed next in 1847. The IEE (Later Renamed as IET ) was formed in 1871. These three are known as the Big Three institutions since together they represent 80% of registered UK engineers. The Joint Council of Engineering Institutions was formed in 1964, which later became the Council of Engineering Institutions (CEI) in November 1965, which had a royal charter . This provided functions similar to those that

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1764-480: Was not largely written by Jonathan Sumption , who went on to become a Supreme Court judge in United Kingdom, though it has been erroneously suggested. Joseph withdrew from the contest against Heath and informed Margaret Thatcher, who responded "if you're not going to stand, I will, because someone who represents our viewpoint has to stand." He now became a major advisor. Thatcher later referred to Joseph as her closest political friend, and they both moved sharply to

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