What’s next for associate and incorporated CIOB members?

Nearly 10 years ago, after consultation with members, CIOB took a decision to bring entry to our non-chartered associate and incorporated grades to an end. Those grades will close completely in June 2025.

Many of our ACIOB and ICIOB members have been with us for a long time and have been supportive members and excellent examples of professionalism. We, as an institute, do not want to lose those members for want of a clear route to move to chartered status from their current grade.

As we promised back in 2015, we have worked to create new routes to chartership, some of which are specifically for those wanting to move from the ACIOB or ICIOB grades.

You may have come across our Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL) scheme, created for those who do not currently hold a level 6 (degree level) qualification but who have substantial and valuable experience.

This scheme involves a straightforward verbal assessment of how learning and knowledge gained meet the academic requirements of membership, allowing the applicant to progress to our professional review (PR) assessment with support from your APEL provider. This offers a different way to go about obtaining chartered status if you’ve focused your career on experience.

APEL is only available to associate or incorporated members who hold current membership and is only open until March next year.

Those who do hold a level 6 qualification are ready to go through the PR process and can take the next step to become chartered. With our mentoring scheme, we can offer support to those members by connecting them with other members who have been through the process. Plus there is also now a simplified means of converting to applicant status and starting down the PR route.

We recognise there will be a small proportion of our non-chartered members who have recently retired or are thinking of retirement. We will work with those members who wish to retain their connection to us in retirement, even though they do not hold a chartered grade.

I’m also glad to have this opportunity to thank all the mentors and hub members in the CIOB community who are supporting their colleagues and peers on their journey to chartered status.

To talk about options to move from being ACIOB or ICIOB, contact our customer services team at 01344 630700 or email [email protected].