Chartered CIPD - what is it equivalent to?

I agree completely,  Peter, re the  cultural differences.

It seems that CIPD have devised an NVQ4 in Personnel Management, but that there's no linkage between this and the professional grades of membership.

Perhaps it might be said that the underpinning knowledge required for the NVQ falls short of postgrad. / masters degree level, but the workplace  competencies required seem pretty thorough.

On the face of it, at least, I do find it rather strange that the NVQ approach doesn't seem to follow through to PGDs and Masters qualification-holders getting upgraded to professional membership. compared with the rigour of an NVQ, the hoops needing to be jumped-through don't seem to me to be all that rigorous.

Don't want to dredge up all our yesterdays, but I'm old enough to have gained a CIPD qualification via their own examinations structure, and, whilst it was't  at all workplace-assessed, the content of all the papers rendered it well nigh impossible for anyone who hadn't actually done it in the workplace adequately to answer the questions set.

That was over 25 years ago now, but I can't really see much if any improvement from then, in membership standards - just subjective impressions though - they may be unfounded.

I agree completely,  Peter, re the  cultural differences.

It seems that CIPD have devised an NVQ4 in Personnel Management, but that there's no linkage between this and the professional grades of membership.

Perhaps it might be said that the underpinning knowledge required for the NVQ falls short of postgrad. / masters degree level, but the workplace  competencies required seem pretty thorough.

On the face of it, at least, I do find it rather strange that the NVQ approach doesn't seem to follow through to PGDs and Masters qualification-holders getting upgraded to professional membership. compared with the rigour of an NVQ, the hoops needing to be jumped-through don't seem to me to be all that rigorous.

Don't want to dredge up all our yesterdays, but I'm old enough to have gained a CIPD qualification via their own examinations structure, and, whilst it was't  at all workplace-assessed, the content of all the papers rendered it well nigh impossible for anyone who hadn't actually done it in the workplace adequately to answer the questions set.

That was over 25 years ago now, but I can't really see much if any improvement from then, in membership standards - just subjective impressions though - they may be unfounded.