31/03/2019
Good evening ladies and gentlemen
My name is QS. Olabode Kehinde as earlier broadcasted
First of all, let me use this opportunity to thank you for the privilege given to me to educate us on " the road map to professional certification of NIQS & RQS"
While going through the topic, kindly don't mind our phone keyboard errors.
Please fell free to call my attention to anything that is not clear to you.
The good news is that out 4370 qualified Quantity Surveyors as at last year NIQS induction in Nigeria,at least almost 2700 are HND holders and HND graduates find it so easy to pass TPC exam because of the fact that before written the TPC they must have passed through GDE exam and *you know what?*
TPC exam is more or less like GDE, only that their are two subjects that you will need to write in GDE that need to be replaced with another subjects in TPC
I will please come back to the papers to be taken in GDE and TPC
To become a professional/qualified and chartered QS; you must passed through the following stages
1. Be a probational member of the institution (NIQS)
2. You need to fill your diaries and logbooks for 3 years
3. You need to write GDE exam for HND holder
4. Also TPC exam for B.sc and HND
5. You attend PCI (Professional Competence Interview)
6. You must have attended seminars that must have fetch you with atleast 60 points
7. You get inducted with NIQS as a qualified Member
8. Obtain QSRBN form
9. Attend and pass QSRBN interview
10. Get inducted with QSRBN
11. You become fully registered Quantity Surveyor (RQS)
*Are we there?*
So, let be taking it one after the other
*1. Be a probational member of the Institute*
First of all let your state chapter recognized you
Becoming a probational member of the institute require you to download probational membership form from www.niqs.org.ng and fill appropriately. Upon completing the form. You will then need to pay an application form fee of #10,000 to the institution account, attach the payment
NIQS President QS Obafemi Onashile, FNIQS delivering goodwill message at the Commonwealth Association of Surveying & Land Economy (CASLE) 2018 Conference in Lusaka, Zambia