The missing ingredient

The missing ingredient appears to be the lack of basic construction and detailing skills among graduates hoping to become architects, civil engineers or QSs.

Without detail one cannot measure (whichever method you choose), without measuring one cannot cost/value.

Graduates are trained in management but not in what they are to manage. The saying “cart before the horse” comes to mind when discussing present university teaching. Before degree courses, day release courses or correspondence courses used to take five or six years before professional membership. Before degrees became ‘de rigueur’, the time between start of training and professional membership previously had been no shorter than at present, but generally a more mature professional emerged. The separation of work and training has raised more questions (and cost) than answers.

Philip Woolley, via email