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IPEd Notes November 2006
IPEd Notes
News from the Institute of Professional Editors November 2006
The IPEd Interim Council is considering a paper prepared under the auspices of the National Organisation Working Group. Entitled ‘Establishing a National Organisation', it sets out the purpose, background, legal standing and management of such an entity. It also lists the functions that the entity will carry out and outlines five suitable business activities that could generate income. The paper will be posted on the website <www.iped-editors.org> and all members are invited to contact their society's IPEd delegate with comments and suggestions. Also on the website, we are now posting the minutes of IPEd Interim Council meetings: click on ‘Meeting Minutes' on the home page to access them.
The Interim Council is developing strategies to ensure that its sub-groups work effectively with each other. The Accreditation Board, for instance, needs to collaborate with the Communications Working Group to develop the publicity strategy for the accreditation scheme. As part of the developing sophistication of the profession's national network, the convenors of the working groups will hold their first teleconference in November and plan to continue interaction by this and other means.
The Standards Revision Working Group is due to put a draft of its revised Standards up for members' approval and discussion. Making use of online technology, the group will be seeking members' input via the IPEd website; the text of the first redraft of Standards will be posted as a wiki-interactive software that allows anyone access to read and write and edit text on the web (think ‘Wikipedia'). Soon all members who register will be able to access the redrafted Standards and edit or alter the wording, punctuation and format. The working group will monitor the changes that people suggest and incorporate worthwhile ones into its final stages of revision.
The Accreditation Board has postponed the workshops that it had planned to hold in November to discuss drafts of the documentation that will accompany the accreditation scheme. These are beginning to consitute an impressive pile of paperwork; eventually it will include an information kit for applicants, guidelines for assessors, a procedures manual, guidelines for handling complaints and appeals, a business plan and a position description for the accreditation secretary. The drafts necessarily incorporate many decisions about the actual operation of the scheme, and the board decided that they needed more work before they were submitted to the membership for comment. The documents will be posted on the website as they become available; societies will hold workshops to discuss them in early 2007 and/or invite members to contribute by email.
About a dozen assessors, representing all states and the ACT, will attend a national meeting on the first weekend of December to discuss the accreditation scheme in Melbourne. At present the assessors are preparing dummy applications that present a range of challenges for the assessment process, and they will work through these over the weekend to develop their joint understanding of what constitutes competent editing.
Janet Mackenzie Liaison Officer
