ATTENTION ALL GRADUATE STATISTICIANS (GRADSTATS) AND CHARTERED STATISTICIANS (CSTATS) - WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU BY RETURN.
This is an invitation to attend the Society's first Awards Celebration on Friday 4 November 2005 at the Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX (nearest underground stations: Barbican, Liverpool Street Station, Moorgate and Old Street). If you have not already advised us that you will be attending, we very much hope that you will be able to join us.
The event will enable us to welcome the increasing number of Graduate Statisticians and students completing the Graduate Diploma and RSSCSE Certificate in Teaching Statistics to the 'professional community'. We would also like to show our appreciation of and admiration for your hard work and success to date.
All GradStats are invited to the event. Those of you who have, this year, achieved GradStat status or successfully completed the Graduate Diploma or the RSSCSE Certificate will be able to receive your certificates officially at the Awards Ceremony. There will also be wrap-around activities for everyone. These will now include a talk by Nicky Best who was awarded the Society's Guy Medal in Bronze last year. We hope that there will be stands run by CPD training providers. The afternoon will culminate in a reception and the chance to celebrate your success and progress with a glass of wine (or two!) to the sounds of jazz musicians from the Guildhall School of Music (see the programme below).
There will also be opportunities to learn more about how the Society might be able to help with your professional statistical development and to tell us what services you might like.
Please do join us, either individually or with a guest: perhaps your partner or your employer (a colleague in your organisation who supports your CPD and who would be interested in learning more about what it means to be a professional statistician). We do, of course, understand that it might be impractical for those of you who are based overseas to come, but you would be extremely welcome if you are able to arrange your affairs so as to be in the UK at around that time.
This invitation is also, of course, warmly extended to all Chartered Statisticians who we would very much encourage to attend. GradStats will be keen to talk to those of you who have already achieved professional status and there will be natural opportunities during the course of the programme for GradStats and CStats to network with each other.
We intend this to be a lively event and one which everybody who attends will find beneficial and enjoy. If you would like to attend - and we hope that you will - please let us know by completing and returning the registration form which can be downloaded from our website: http://www.rss.org.uk/docs/CPD_-_Awards%20Celebration%202005%20Acceptance%20Form.doc.
We really look forward to seeing you there.
Debra
Debra Hurcomb
Theme Manager, Education
Careers & CPD
Tel: 020 7614 3934/Fax: 020 7614 3905
PROGRAMME
1430 hrs Registration
Time to visit CPD market place
1530 hrs Welcome and introduction to event,
Tim Holt, President, The Royal Statistical Society
1535 hrs CPD update and feedback on GradStat survey led by Janet Dougharty, Chair, Professional Affairs Committee
1600 hrs "The Inquiring Mind of the Statistician - Harold Shipman and Bristol Royal Infirmary cases", a talk by Nicky Best, awarded the Guy Medal in Bronze, 2004
1620 hrs Awards Ceremony
1645 - 1715 hrs Break/Refreshments (further time to visit CPD market place)
1715 hrs Reception including the Anthony Strong Duo
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