Hi all,
I'm currently studying on the Level 3 Tech Cert Arb course, with the management exercise due in October. If I complete the course I'm interested in the possibility of carrying out tree surveys as an extra string to my underemployed professional bow (I'm a chartered landscape architect).
There's been some debate as to whether the Tech. Cert. is a sufficient qualification to start in this kind of work: my course tutor (Warwickshire College) reckons that it is, and that it's a good qualification; the Arb. Assoc's Guide to Qualifications also states that this is an appropriate level of qualification for a tree surveyor.
However, an experienced surveyor I know reckons that the Diploma should be the minimum qualification. But with the Diploma now an expensive two-year course, who's going to study to that level before they can start work in the profession, other than people currently working in arb whose studies are financed by their employers?
Any views?
Thanks.
