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Fellowship
The designations for Fellow are FCIS (for ICSA) and FCS (for the HKICS). All applications are approved by Membership Committee on a regular basis.
Please download the application form and notes on completing the form (in pdf format):
Please note the Application submission deadlines 2013 (in pdf format)
ELIGIBILITY
Under Bye-law 4, the basic requirements for election to Fellowship are as follows: To have passed the Institute's qualifying examinations;
To have held a Fellowship level post for at least three of the past ten years;
To be a fit and proper person;
Applicant shall have been engaged, as his chief occupation, in the office of one or more organisations for at least eight years, and shall have been engaged for at least three years in the past ten years either
i. as a secretary or assistant secretary or in some other position which, though differently designated, shall satisfy the Council is analogous and equivalent to that of secretary or assistant secretary, or
ii. in a senior executive or in an administrative position that, in the Council's opinion, has at least the same status as a secretary or assistant secretary, or
iii. a senior academic in a university, or other higher or further education body, or
iv. a member in public practice, or
v. alternatively, he must have completed any other professional development that the Council decides on, or
vi. any experience must have been with one or more organisations that, in the Council's opinion, justifies electing the person as a Fellow; and
vii. he must give the Council any information it requires about his duties and any organisation he has served subject to the ICSA Bye-law 4 and the Article 5.2 of the HKICS' Memorandum & Articles of Association.
With regard to working experience, the Council shall have power in the case of any candidate holding a degree of a university recognised by the Council as being of suitable academic standing, or a diploma or other certificate recognised as equivalent to a degree of such a university, or in the case of any candidate holding a professional qualification recognised by the Council as justifying such dispensation, to reduce at its discretion by not more than three years the period of eight years specified in the ICSA Bye-law 4 and the Article 5.4 of the HKICS' Memorandum & Articles of Association.
Applicant shall maintain at least a year of Associateship before advancement to Fellowship.
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