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Education

All matters (except books) relating to professional education and training, including:

  • liaison with the Joint Examination Board, ITMA’s Education and Training Committee, institutes of higher education and educational funding bodies, including the Intellectual Property Education Trust, both pre- and post-qualification;
  • policy for the organisation of the educational seminar programme (liaising with the Social & Programme Committee on the timing of the programme); and
  • supporting the Informals (a member of Council, customarily also a member of the Committee, is available to the Informals).

Philip Barnes
Richard Davis
Jon Gowshall (Chairman)
Annabel Hector
Bruce Jones
Tony Luckhurst
Robert Weston (Deputy Chairman)
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Michael Berkson
Gurpreet Bhambra (Informals Rep.)
Emer Clifford (Informals Rep.)
Dominic Davies
Hazel Ford
Stuart Forrest  (Informals Rep.)
Lorraine Humphrey
Nerissa Lonergan (Informals Rep.)
Andrew Teuten
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Johanna Gibson  (QM-UL representative)
Spyros Maniatis  (QM-UL representative)
Hazel Carty (Manchester Univ. rep.)
TBA  (Brunel Univ. representative)
Prof. Ruth Soetendorp (Bournemouth Univ.rep.)
Alan Burrington (skills course organiser)
Rupert Furneaux (ITMA representative)
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Prof. Avrom Sherr (receives papers following his Review of Education & Training in the profession)