RICS girl power in action

I was reading the education supplement in Tuesday’s Guardian and saw that the Royal Institute of British Architects are launching a returners course via London Metropolitan University for women who’ve taken a career break. It's in their article a Women at Work. RICS has a campaign called Raising the Ratio which aims to boost women’s status in the surveying profession. There’s a page dedicated to the campaign .

I often get calls from women returning to the profession after a career break who need to get up to speed with what’s happening in particular surveying areas. The best way is to look at our Hot Topics at  where you’ll find we’ve selected the best material on burning subjects. You can use these to then view material online  - as we put online reports as well as ebooks and case law on these lists. You can use these to borrow material from us. Once you’ve picked what you want to borrow email us a form so we can process your order quickly. The great thing here is we post out for free. You’ll also find our lists under the Knowledge Base area in our online database - good for swatting up on your faculty specialisms. The cherry on the cake   is our Knowledge Alert fortnightly bulletin which filters all the latest goings on in property and construction with links and saves you the time of reading hundreds of magazines. You can sign up by emailing my colleague tnorton@rics.org. If you’re a member sign up through the member newsletter preferences by logging on rics.org selecting My RICS from the toolbar, then My Details from the left hand choice of options on the screen. You can then pick up the E-newsletters tab and add it to your choices .

If you’re recently returned to work after a career break or are about to, let us know what you think of these services. If you’ve got any ideas of what else we could do to help you, do suggest these to us on the blog.