Well, I’ve sent my Chartership submission off to CILIP, so now I’m just waiting to hear back from them and trying to ignore the niggly little voices in my head telling me that I haven’t referenced my documents properly in the introduction - I daren’t look and check if I have though!! So now that I’ve [...]

I think I now have all the documents together that are going to be in my portfolio, with introduction and Table of Contents and everything! A couple of them I need to print out another copy, as they’ve been revised, but overall I have a nice shiny blue file filled with paper that I can [...]

As I’m just tying together my portfolio and finishing it off I’ve been thinking about the differences between the two regulations. The only difference I can see between the submissions is that for the old regulations you need to do a 4000 word report covering their six sections. Otherwise the portfolio side of it is exactly [...]

I’m giving a talk this afternoon at the CILIP Graduate Open Day on my career and just generally enthuse about the profession as a whole to encourage people to join it. But, as a result of this it’s made me think about my experiences and how I got to where I am.

In my course we’ve started by looking at eportfolios (not that I’ve done very much of the reading yet), but it has made me think about CILIP’s chartership process. Currently you have to submit it as three paper copies, or two paper copies and one electronic. Personally I wouldn’t want to submit it electronically as [...]

Well, after however long I’ve been doing this I now feel that it’s all coming together. I have a pile of bits of paper to go in my portfolio and have had a go at writing the report and intro etc. I’ve been planning to submit under the 2002 regs, as those are what I [...]