BCS Awards Ceremony
From TheStudentWiki
The British Computer Society Awards Ceremony is an innovative new process for awarding professional membership (post nominal letters MBCS) to graduating students from BCS-acccredited honours degree courses. This innovation was developed in 2006 by Leeds Metropolitan University in conjunction with the BCS.
Contents |
Leeds Met qualifying courses
Students who successfully complete the following courses, and whose production project is based upon stages of the systems development life cycle, qualify for the award of MBCS at the Graduation BCS Awards Ceremony:
B.Sc Business Information Systems
B.Sc Business Information Technology
B.Sc Business Computing
B.Sc Computing
B.Sc Computing (Computer Communication)
B.Sc Computing (Database Systems)
B.Sc Computing (Multimedia Systems)
B.Sc Computing (Software Development)
B.Sc Information Systems
Process
The traditional process is for universities to provide a list of qualifying graduands to the BCS sometime after the final year exam board. In practice, this may be weeks or months after the end of the academic year. Following this, graduates may choose to apply for membership at some later point and the BCS then validates the application using the list supplied by the university.
The new process is for students to apply for membership during their final year. Their membership fees are held by the BCS pending successful completion of study. As soon as the exam board has ratified results, the BCS are notified of the qualifying students. Membership certificates are printed and awarded in a ceremony during the Graduation Day. Graduands consequently receive, in front of their families, BSc and MBCS on the same day.
In the 2006 ceremony at Leeds Metropolitan University 13 students received their membership certificates from BCS Membership Manager Kuldeep Kaur. In 2007, 26 students received MBCS at this special ceremony.
