The RICS is proposing radical changes to the role of its president and general council as part of a review of its future.
On Monday, general council will debate how best to focus the president and council’s time on the most important issues.
Mark Goodwin, RICS director of communications, said: “This is about being involved in the substantive issues and less about the running of the place.”
He said it was unlikely that the president’s role would become more of a non-executive leadership role. Some of the president’s workload and some work still going to general council – for instance financial matters – could be delegated to the RICS executive group.
Monday’s General Council meeting will also attempt to build on the findings of a working party led by incoming president Richard Lay, chairman of DTZ Debenham Thorpe.
Lay’s group has been considering the RICS’s future objectives under the banners of education, standards, and promotion.
Current RICS president Peter McKendrick said he wanted to attract the brightest and best graduates into the profession and to establish the RICS qualification as a world-calss business qualification.
EGi News 27/04/98
