News
Tuesday 9 May 2006
RICS President visits Nottingham Trent University
The President of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) visited Nottingham Trent University to give a talk on ‘The Evolving Property Profession’. Steve Williams spoke to staff and students from the University’s School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment – one of the leading providers of real estate surveying education in the UK.
During his presentation, Steve emphasised that the students were the future for the real estate profession. He said the chartered surveying qualification was an international currency which provided students with an opportunity to work almost anywhere in the world, particularly given the increasingly global nature of real estate markets.
Steve also talked about his own time spent as a novice valuer in Liverpool in the 1960s, working as a surveyor in the Cayman Islands for ten years, and owning and managing his own appraisal business in the US.
The University has strong links with the RICS, the leading source of land, property, construction and related environmental knowledge. Many of the courses in the institution’s School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment are accredited by the organisation.
As part of the visit Steve officially opened the East Midlands RICS Resource Room in the University’s Dryden building. This is intended to provide a contact point for RICS East Midlands, students on RICS accredited courses and their tutors.
The room provides a range of resources about opportunities within the profession and is available for meetings and interviews. The RICS Regional Training Advisor will use it for regular surgeries with members. The University will use it for interviews between real estate employers and sandwich students who undertake work placements as part of their course.
Steve Williams said: “I see Nottingham Trent University fulfilling an essential role in preparing future property professionals for a business world in which competence, integrity and new skill sets are in ever increasing demand.
“As the mark of the property profession worldwide, we at RICS see Nottingham Trent University providing property studies equipping their graduates for making a valuable contribution in a global economy.”
Paul Royston, the head of Property Management and Development at the University, said: “It was great that our surveying students had the chance to listen to and question Steve, giving them first-hand experience of the human side of RICS and exposure to his wealth of experience.”
He added: “Steve is a great believer in the fostering of close relationships between RICS and universities, and he was therefore particularly impressed with our newly developed resource facility.”
Students from real estate management, planning and property development, and quantity and building surveying degrees attended the event.
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For more information please contact:
Dave Rogers, Press Officer, on telephone +44 (0)115 848 2650 or via email: dave.rogers@ntu.ac.uk.
Or Therese Easom, Press and Media Relations Manager, on telephone +44 (0)115 848 6589 or via email: therese.easom@ntu.ac.uk.
