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Technician versus technologist

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  • 01-09-2020 12:38am
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    Salthillprom
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    Hi asking for a friend not on boards.

    Can you tell me difference between architectural technician and architectiral technologist. How would I become a technologist if I've a diploma already as arch technician? Would I need to go to different colleges and is a technologist a step up from technicain or am wrong?


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    sydthebeat
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    https://ciat.org.uk/membership.html

    get chartered


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    Salthillprom
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    So you can't say your an arch technologist if you are not chartered? Is that the case?


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    sydthebeat
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    Salthillprom wrote: »
    So you can't say your an arch technologist if you are not chartered? Is that the case?

    you can call yourself whatever you want.

    the titles of architectural technician and architectural technologist are not protected, unlike that of Architect.

    Some college going people use a rule of thumb that a level 7 qualification is a 'technician' an a level 8 qualification is a 'technologist' but as far as i know that doesn't hold any basis in anything other than academia.

    if you are "chartered" you can call yourself an Architectural Technologist.


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    woody1
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    sydthebeat wrote: »
    you can call yourself whatever you want.

    the titles of architectural technician and architectural technologist are not protected, unlike that of Architect.

    Some college going people use a rule of thumb that a level 7 qualification is a 'technician' an a level 8 qualification is a 'technologist' but as far as i know that doesn't hold any basis in anything other than academia.

    :rolleyes: :)


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    DvB
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    sydthebeat wrote: »
    Some college going people use a rule of thumb that a level 7 qualification is a 'technician' an a level 8 qualification is a 'technologist' but as far as i know that doesn't hold any basis in anything other than academia.

    if you are "chartered" you can call yourself an Architectural Technologist.

    When I left Bolton St in 1995 we were told by our lecturers at the time that we were Architectural Technologists as we had studied Technology, back then it was a 3 yr Diploma (level 7) and I've never heard anybody challenge that. But as you say, with no protection of titles its hard to really argue, for example I know of CAD technicians who referred to themselves as Architectural Technicians because they could use AutoCAD despite never having never studied Architectural Technology.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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    woody1
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    meself and syd left in 98 , i think , its a long time ago, actually syd might have finished the year before me,

    and yeah i remember something similar, that we were technologists, but i have also seen the level 8 and chartered stuff too..


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    sydthebeat
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    woody1 wrote: »
    meself and syd left in 98 , i think , its a long time ago, actually syd might have finished the year before me,

    and yeah i remember something similar, that we were technologists, but i have also seen the level 8 and chartered stuff too..

    I eventually got out in '99 woody :D

    If i recall right, that was the last year of the 3 year level 7 diploma, with the 4 year level 8 coming in the next year, though i might be mistaken.

    ive never gotten into the whole technician v technologist conversation because it makes absolutely no difference to me what i call myself, or how others refer to me.

    More often than not i tell people im an architectural technician, and when the inevitable question of "is that the same as an architect".. i generally explain that we specialise in the technology of architecture, rather than the design aspect of it.


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    DvB
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    sydthebeat wrote: »
    More often than not i tell people im an architectural technician, and when the inevitable question of "is that the same as an architect".. i generally explain that we specialise in the technology of architecture, rather than the design aspect of it.

    Try explaining that you did both... whenever it comes up I always get the inevitable query as 'whats the difference?' & why bother doing both?:rolleyes:
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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    woody1
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    ve never gotten into the whole technician v technologist conversation because it makes absolutely no difference to me what i call myself, or how others refer to me.

    Ditto but I'd still like to do the level 8 for myself


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    sydthebeat
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    woody1 wrote: »
    ve never gotten into the whole technician v technologist conversation because it makes absolutely no difference to me what i call myself, or how others refer to me.

    Ditto but I'd still like to do the level 8 for myself

    as far as i understand it, getting charted is a valid equivalent.

    im out on my own now, so its become a real prospect for me.


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