Little bit of research

[treequip]

Is it something you do from home?

 

Do the survey before you read this.

 

Easy peasy self study, your pace and your place.

 

Study at your pace, use the study guide to point you in the right direction, Have a look at the CEU questionnaires to get an idea of the exam format.

When you recon you are ready for a crack at the exam book a place and off you go.

 

More here

Certification - Arborist Certification :: ISA Certified Arborists :: ISA UK&I Chapter

 

Andy

[Robert_S]

Ive got the isa cert arb, i like it very much ive had mine just over 7 year and i also like the fact it has ceu (Continued Educational Units) it keeps me reading and learning.

i would advise everyone to go get it.

[Gerbutt]

Do the survey before you read this.

 

Easy peasy self study, your pace and your place.

 

Study at your pace, use the study guide to point you in the right direction, Have a look at the CEU questionnaires to get an idea of the exam format.

When you recon you are ready for a crack at the exam book a place and off you go.

 

More here

Certification - Arborist Certification :: ISA Certified Arborists :: ISA UK&I Chapter

 

Andy

 

Cheers for the information Andy, it looks very interesting. I've always done some sort of further education, either for work reasons or for pleasure, as I enjoy learning. I nearly have working with trees as a job, and when I'm not working, it's a hobby. I get a buzz learning what I can about trees and anything to do with them, so this would be a great mix of both.

[Quickthorn]

I did it and got it, but let it lapse.

 

If it's still the same, you have to get so many CEU credits within a certain period of time, otherwise it expires and you have to start again. From what I could see, you could only get so many credits from ISA magazine questionnaires; you needed to go on a few seminars each year to gain enough credits to keep the qualification. I just didn't have the time or the money.

 

I understand the idea of CEUs, and that it keeps you up to date and all that, but I wish I'd done the RFS Cert. I'd still have that now.

[Silver Back]

True.

The whole idea behind the CEU's or Continuing Educational Units is you keep up with current issues, legislation good practice etc.

Virtually every area is covered from first aid to refresher courses including inhouse training, as well as seminars, climbing comps and indeed the articles from the Arborist News - which you can take online.

1CEU= 1 hour of seated learning.

30 are required in 3 years, how hard can it be?

The hardest thing is to actually fill out the CEU submission form

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Hi Tony,

 

Anecdotally, my understadning is that the qualification is not very active at the moment, this may be due to a lck of awareness which your post might address and stimulate enquiries to ISA.

 

However I am very interested in the qualification opportunites at craftsman level, i.e. 2.../3 (which perhaps ISA Cert Arb should be???) for the industry and would be keen to be involved (aghhhh, can't believe I've said that as I've no time to do what I need to now...BUT this is important to the industry) in any proposals you may have.

 

PLease keep me posted.

 

Cheers..

Paul

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

I did it and got it, but let it lapse.

 

If it's still the same, you have to get so many CEU credits within a certain period of time, otherwise it expires and you have to start again. From what I could see, you could only get so many credits from ISA magazine questionnaires; you needed to go on a few seminars each year to gain enough credits to keep the qualification. I just didn't have the time or the money.

 

I understand the idea of CEUs, and that it keeps you up to date and all that, but I wish I'd done the RFS Cert. I'd still have that now.

 

IMO the importnat thing is that you still have the 'knowledge', and that's what's really important (AND gud'on'ya for that!), what you need to do now is keep that knowledge going through reading, reasearching, discussing, 'Arb talking' etc.

 

You may no longer have an 'active' qualification but you still have the knowledge!

Paul

[Ian H]

I'm interested in doing it but did the rfs cert arb about 15 years ago, I like the idea of ceu's but as it is level 2(same as cert arb I believe) i'm not sure theres enough to be gained, perhaps the tech cert is a better option(level 3) especially as I'm working up to the prof dip/bsc. That said I am still interested.

[Amelanchier]

However I am very interested in the qualification opportunites at craftsman level, i.e. 2.../3 (which perhaps ISA Cert Arb should be???) for the industry and would be keen to be involved (aghhhh, can't believe I've said that as I've no time to do what I need to now...BUT this is important to the industry) in any proposals you may have.

 

PLease keep me posted.

 

Ha ha - that's what I do! Will keep you in mind sir!

[arb culture]

Tony, I've done it and found it really interesting.

 

Having been through the process I reckon that if a contractor has this badge, it shows that they probably will understand my recommendations as a consultant, and because of the CEU/time lapse aspect, I can be fairly confident that their knowledge will be reasonably up to date.

 

Also, Joe Public seem to respond well to the 'Certified Arborist' badge.

 

And having done it myself, it shouldn't be a level 2, it's a lot harder than GCSE's.