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Our Advanced Diploma in Quantity Surveying course is an accessible step onto a rewarding career path or higher education. Quantity Surveyors are responsible for calculating the budget and costs of a building project. The role combines managerial work with technical work into one highly skilled position. It's a highly responsible job and the salary reflects that, but employers are struggling to fill the demand. Despite being a centuries-old practice, Quantity Surveying is a relatively new discipline in academia in contrast to something like Civil Engineering. As a result, employers are facing a skills shortage as the number of graduates is not meeting the number of Quantity Surveyors needed.

Interesting blog post and presentation applying brain rules to Powerpoint

This is where I first heard about Brain Rules!

Could we all identify where we all heard about brain research first? For me it was in undergraduate education a little, but more strongly in graduate education. My mentor teacher once decorated her entire classroom like the rainforest - stuff hanging from the ceiling, growing out of walls, it was crazy!

The College of Contract Management is offering a coaching service to guide you through your Assessment of Professional Competence. With our help, you'll be ready to ace your APC and become an MRICS. The APC is the final step for a qualified person to become a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. There are 22 sector pathways to the MRICS and we are trained and accredited to help you with the Quantity Surveying and Construction pathway. On this path, you'll be tested on your competencies in all aspects of surveying, details of which can be found on the RICS website.

Level 7 qualification is all too easy to get bogged down in strings of numbers and letters when it comes to trying to work out what a qualification actually means. Exactly what you call a qualification seems to change regularly and you're left unsure as to what exactly you're applying for.