I read with interest the correspondence in your last issue (Letters, QS News, 5 May).

As a twice referred candidate, I did have a bee in my bonnet about how the process was bias towards PQSing.

Being employed as a contractor's QS by a local authority, in an ex-DSO style arrangement throughout my APC, there were no immediate colleagues that were F or MRICS. I felt this was not catered for by the competencies and somehow this was going against me.

It was not until I stumbled onto the fine course run by Alpesh Patel (who did actually refer me as my panel chairman one time) that it all came together and how the two sides of QSing were not poles apart at all and the competencies reflected this.

It's a shame the RICS does not provide a regional training advisor to help the candidates directly, rather than one that will only liase with supervisors or counsellors who may only see the candidate at three-month intervals. There are the doctors of course, but are they always up to speed with what's happening at the coal face of the APC?

Ben Kitowski, QS, Lancashire County Council

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