What criteria are being discussed?
• Being a qualified member of an appropriate professional body (eg IoL, ITI, AIIC); • Honours degree or higher in the appropriate subject and, if appropriate, a second qualification; • Appropriate period of experience working with the language/s concerned; • Languages must be either the main or necessary professional activity (thus also catering for bilingual professionals of bi-professional linguists, eg foreign law solicitors; • Commitment to CPD; • Good references from at least two professional colleagues (not relatives or friends); • Periodic re-assessment of language and subject skills; • No evidence of not being a fit and proper person.
