Wednesday, December 21, 2005

CSIP Legal announcement

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CSIP Legal Announcement

Announcement Announcement Announcement Announcement DEC 31, 2005
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To All members, Non Members including NON CSIC members, Stakeholders, Associates, Affiliates



CSIP is advising you as of today, the result of the meeting with Mr. Dan Burnett of law firm Owen Bird, A litigator whose specialty is in defamation and other areas of the law in BC. Has agreed to be appointed to initiate to study and prepare for a law suit against both society ( CSIC ) and organization CAPIC.

In month of January 2006,Mr. Burnett of Owen Bird will issue a letter to all members who are becoming part of this class action, providing you with the class action's objectives.

CSIP has requested that the class action objectives should include all the issues and concerns that we have raised in the past two months regarding CSIC and CAPIC actions against the immigration community due to the lack of a response on their part.
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In the same class action, we are also requesting that CSIP be recognized as a self - regulatory body, by CIC and other Government organizations.

We are also pursuing the objective of refunding the exorbitant professional fees that had been unfairly charged by CSIC from its members or the past three years.


The last objective is to dissolve CSIC and CAPIC and to replace these discredited organizations recently accused of financial irregularities (CSIC) by former Executives and in default with code of ethics and standard of conducts (CAPIC.) amended paragraph

We see CSIP as a replacement body for the need of self regulating the immigration industry. CSIP will be managed and operated with the help of all stakeholders involved with immigration in Canada. Including immigration consultants, Immigration lawyers, and other pillars of Society like retired judges.

CSIP has already issued a post dated cheque for $5000.00 dollars to the law firm of Owen Bird to study the 8500 pages of preliminary documents and prepare the ground for all members to be a part of the class action suit.

All members of CSIP and NON CSIP members can be included in this class action suit, the legal fees are minimum and spread over more than 2500 members. Each consultant will end up in paying a small fraction of the total legal cost involved.

CSIP as of now is requesting all of you to donate as much as you can afford $$$$$$$$ so that the this class action suit can go forward.

CSIP is also communicating with several insurance companies to provide Error and Omission insurance coverage to CSIP members and also those members of CSIC who are on the suspension list.

CSIP requires written confirmation from all industry stakeholders who want to be part of this law suit initiated to protect and preserve the immigration profession and immigration practices that has been seriously jeopardize by csic.

This is the time to act NOW to join the law suit and ensure that you receive compensation for the loss of your livelhood including the exorbitant fees paid to CSIC for the last three years.


Please be informed that your name can not be added at a later date in this law suit when .



Required donations


Please send your donation with the next seven days to the following address:
The Canadian Society of immigration practitioners ( CSIP)
20TH FLOOR
Oceanic building
2000-1066 west Hasting Street
Vancouver, BC
V6E 3X2

Please write c/o donation/ class action/ csic/ capic

All contributors names will be published after csip receiving written permission from the donor. The donation is tax deductible.Our initial gaol is to raise at least 25000.00 dollars. We will keep you posted about the money raised.


Sincerely yours

CSIP Chair person
Nancy Salloum

Wishing you a happy new year and hope your New year resolution is to continue your Immigration business with confidence in a society that you can trust.

Thursday, December 15, 2005

FROM: The Canadian Society of Immigration practitioners ( CSIP)
2000-1066 West Hasting Street Vancouver, BC
V6E3X2


To
Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants ( CSIC ) 390 Bay Street, Suite 1600Munich Re CenterToronto, Ontario Canada M5H 2Y2
Attention Chair person Jhon Ryan


To
Canadian Association of Immigration Consutlants ( CAPIC)
CAPIC National Headquarters
245 Fairview Mall Drive,
Suite 602,
Toronto, Ontario,
Attention Chair person Ron Mckay

TO
Canadian Bar Association
CBA National Office ( CBA )
The Canadian Bar Association
500 - 865 Carling AvenueOttawa, Ontario K1S 5S8
Mr. Robin Sligmen
To:
Registered Immigration Consultants Association of Canada ( RIC)
235 Yorkland Blvd., #408
Toronto, ON M2J 4Y8
Attention President Sean HU
What is wrong with this picture today with CSIC as NPO Society?
What is wrong with this statements? CSIC Corruptions by Benjamin Trsiter / Rico Martinez /
What is wrong with this information been given by CSIC to the media and the members by Patrice Brunet, CSIC's spokesman,?
What is wrong with CBC news release? Lawyers group asks Ottawa to probe immigration consultants society
What is wrong with Globe and mail statement? http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20051214/IMMIGRATION14/TPNational/Email
Why Tina Ryan speaks on behalf of CSIC? Where is John Ryan? Why is CNW release statments NOW?http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/December2005/14/c0639.html
Why Registered Immigration Consultants Association of Canada call for us to meet and discuss CSIC issues?
heHave you checked the private website of John Ryan?Is he exempted from the CSIC by-laws as immigration consultants?http://www.visapost.com/index.htm
Why CSIC sending registered Complaint report against Nancy Salloum accusing her with Anti--Semitic? Is it easy for CSIC to get rid of her?
Why CSIC senior investigator Robert G. Kewley investigate bogus complaints from consultant Camilla Jones? Is this where the members and tax payers funds spends on? Did CSIC put her up to this breach and accusation?
What CSIC FAQ tells us about CSIC? http://csic-scci.ca/indexE.html
why CBA communicating with Immigration minister Volpe?CBA drafted letter to his Honourable Joe Volpe, P.C., M.P.
WHY CSIP is requesting Embassy recognitions? EMBASSIES RECOGNITION TO CSIP : IMMEDIATE ALERT: read
Lets get to business here seriously: All this mumble and jumble boils to corruption and more corruption and good reason to dissolve the CSIC Society.
Have you heard of the statement when we call for someone who just came out of the closet, or the cats out of the bags or Chickens comes home bites at the Rooster. or liar liar your bag on fire.

Well Unfortunately, all this does not smell good at all, every day the Immigration Consultants images have been tarnished by the minute.
What is worse about the whole situation, that the real bad news has not come out yet.

The real dirty laundry is still wet and not going to the dryer any sooner
CSIP has just received the news that there were more than 384 Immigration consultants did not meet the actual initial requirements to be accepted to become CSIC members.
Apparently, there were more than 10 Canadian corporations who provided letters of references for $50.00 dollar a piece to consultants confirming that they have filed and represent 10 cases to meet the initial requirements where in fact they did not file or represent. ( CSIP is wondering if Trister and Ryan knew about it and kept a blind eye so they can have CIC $ million dollar grant. Presumably this information and its resources is correct. CSIP stated that they have all the evidence that can help an immediate investigation to confirm this new information. However, that leaves CSIC with 1001 members minus 384 members who are not qualified with a total of 617 current members minus the 500 members who failed the English test, Gee I hate to say it is a big 0,

John Ryan still believes that he have members and financially sounded strong, What a delusional thinking?

Maybe until April 2006 and with all the membership fee collected. Usually NPO can get away of all the funds and no question asked. POOR CONSULTANTS what a waste of Membership money down the drain.Please be caution and ead teh directors indeminity caluse. They can take your money and no question ask.

By the way , Is there any chance that anyone out there knows what is the relationship between Minister Volpe and Angela Volpe the CSIC administrator. CSIP is curious about this, any hint or info is greatly appreciated, CSIP cannot pay higher that $1 dollar for any Info, after all we are NPO Society.


CSIP Monitor of the day

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CSIC sent a complaint 8 months ago against Nancy Salloum to the BC law Society that she is using the word " immigration law " and requested of her to remove it from her website.

unfortunately when CSIC targets the wrong the members, then they can turn and bite hard.


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What is wrong with this picture of John Ryan statements on his private website?
Is this bullying the clients and say hey and I am your right man for the job?
Do you have to list your accomplishments just to get an immigration clients?
Is this why Ryan is under the Federal investigation for fraud?
I believe that this picture put Ryan in breached of all the Rules of the professional Conduct.
I wonder what the CBA think of Ryan that he advices on immigration law, I did not read about is certificate or degree of LAW in this list?
I should just send this website to the law society of upper Canada and see what they think about his practice? Lets just do that.



Welcome! VisaPost is dedicated to helping you, the qualified investor, business person, entrepreneur, skilled worker, or students successfully navigate through the intricacies of Canadian, US, and Australian immigration laws and regulations.
John P. Ryan, Registered Member of CSIC, Registration #M041001
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John P. Ryan O.S.J., Member of Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants, President. Mr. Ryan has many years experience working for the Government of Canada as a Senior Immigration Officer; Customs Inspector and Commissioned Officer in The Canadian Armed Forces.
In 1996,he was admitted to the Association of Immigration Counsel of Canada (AICC) as a Licensed Member and was accredited as a member of the Organization of Professional Immigration Consultants (OPIC). In 1997, he was elected National 1st Vice President of the Association of Immigration Counsel of Canada. In 1999 Mr. Ryan became the Association's National President. In 2002 he was appointed by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada to the Ministers Advisory Committee on the Regulation of Consultants. In 2003 , he became the Vice Chair of the newly created Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants.
A significant portion of Mr. Ryan's practice is devoted to advice on Immigration Law. In recognition of his public and charitable service to the community, Mr. Ryan was granted a Knighthood by the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem and conferred a Grant of Arms by the Governor General of Canada, The Right Honorable Romeo Leblanc.
Mr. Ryan is a proactive advocate of the need to regulate the immigration advice industry. He has been actively involved in the movement to regulate immigration consultants and has been involved in the design and delivery of Professional Education Programs to immigration practitioners. He is a member of the Royal Canadian Military Institute (RCMI), the Canadian Federation of Independent Business ( CFIB).

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Volpe to tackle issue of illegal immigration
He will present his options to cabinet; But amnesty for undocumented workers is not on the table, minister says

ELIZABETH THOMPSON
The Gazette
October 11, 2005

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CREDIT: TOM HANSON, CP
"Whether they are in the hospitality industry, the construction industry, in manufacturing, quite frankly, it doesn't matter. They're here. So we have to find a way to bring them into the regular mainstream," Immigration Minister Joe Volpe said.

The federal government is poised to tackle the thorny problem of what to do with tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants who are living illegally in Canada, says federal Citizenship and Immigration Minister Joe Volpe.
In an interview with The Gazette, Volpe said he has drafted a number of options designed to "regularize" undocumented workers and is preparing to bring them to cabinet.
"I don't want to discuss all of the options because I've got to do that with my cabinet colleagues first," he explained. "Let it suffice to say that I have several options of regularization that I want to debate."
While Volpe was tight-lipped about what options he is considering, granting a blanket amnesty to those living illegally in Canada is not on the table.
The problem of undocumented immigrants living illegally in Canada is a tricky and complex one for the federal government. While some may be in the legal shadows for a reason, many others are hardworking individuals doing jobs that Canadian businesses need done, but are not legally in the country and are not paying taxes on their earnings.
Further complicating the issue is the perception that those who enter Canada illegally are jumping the queue while others take months and even years to be allowed to immigrate.
Even knowing how many undocumented workers are in the country is a challenge, Volpe admits.
Speaking to reporters in February, Volpe said estimates ranged from 10,000 to 120,000.
In last week's interview with The Gazette, Volpe didn't even offer any figures.
"The thing about undocumented or out-of-status people is that you can't count them. You don't know where they are. Like everybody knows who they are, where they are, but they don't come in and say, here I am."
Canada's problem with undocumented workers living illegally in the country pales in comparison to that of the United States where an estimated 1,000 Mexican workers cross into the country daily, Volpe pointed out.
Part of what has exacerbated the problem is the current selection criteria for immigrants which put the emphasis on candidates with university degrees, Volpe said. While attracting people with academic credentials is good, he said, the system is so rigid that many of those without university degrees have difficulty getting into Canada legally.
"Because we didn't build in other flexibility, as the economy developed, the economy attracted people over here that our system wasn't capable of dealing with," he explained. "So they are here, out of status."
Currently, they are working in a variety of different sectors of the economy, he said.
"Whether they are in the hospitality industry, the construction industry, in manufacturing, quite frankly, it doesn't matter. They're here. So we have to find a way to bring them into the regular mainstream."
Volpe also played down the idea that regularizing undocumented workers will reward them for having bypassed Canada's regular immigration system.
"If we think in terms of these people as being queue jumpers, it will be more difficult. Because everybody thinks that they are cheaters when they do that. Keep in mind that the system for processing these people wasn't equipped to process them and the economic system was inviting them."
While Volpe has yet to bring the question to cabinet, he said he has already started to address it.
"I've got a plan. What I have started to do with the plan is to build coalitions. From labor, business and community groups, NGOs (non-governmental organizations), in order to see how we can best resolve this. But it is unfair to say that the plan is either complete or a fait accompli."
Volpe says he is also working on ways to regionalize Canada's immigration, encouraging newcomers to settle in different provinces and cities across the country.
"If you go anywhere in Canada they will tell you that part of the fix is that you can't possibly have people come to Canada and all of them end up in southern Ontario. Because then that doesn't do the rest of the country any good. So the regionalization of the benefits of immigration are a real challenge."
The key to achieving that is to work with provinces, cities, business and labor, Volpe said.
"You've got to build partnerships. Partnerships with the provinces, partnerships maybe indirectly with cities and larger communities like regional development groups, economic development agencies, partnerships with unions and employer groups.
''So all of these things have to be done so that you can bring immigration, which is a Canada-wide program, bring it to bear in the places where it can have the biggest impact."
Meanwhile one area where many groups working with refugees would like to see progress - having the government fulfill its promise to institute a refugee appeal process - is one area in which it doesn't appear that much progress has been made.
"Nothing is ever dead," responded Volpe when asked if the appeal process was dead.
"But I think it is fair to say that all of the facts and figures to justify whether to move ahead with it aren't completely analyzed."

Monday, February 14, 2005

CIPC COLLEGE: AN OVERVIEW
History
1 CIPC is a College of the Canadian immigration practitioners of Canada which has as its focus the study of creative, cognitive, cultural and social processes in the immigration industry locally and internationally, and which has a long-standing commitment to life-long learning for immigration practitioners. It values its international reputation for research, scholarship and teaching and its tradition of working with and for the people of Canada and internationals. The CIPC College aims to be pre-eminent in its distinctive combination of disciplines: visual, literary and performing arts, social, behavioural and mathematical sciences, design, the humanities and educational studies.
2 CIPC College was founded in 1986 by Nuha Salloum, Middle Eastern immigrant form Jordan by the Salloum Company of Salloum as the Company's Technical and Procreative Institute, in buildings originally designed for the immigration practitioners
3 It took about six years since 1986 and In 1992, CIPC was published able to use the technology of the web as first immigration website about Canada through Netscape search engine the College amalgamated with the CIPN and as part of the non-Government's rationalisation of teacher immigration education. CIPC became a training School – now College – of the CIPN in 1993 The CIPC College has been directly funded since 1986 by the Nuha Salloum under Salloum and Company and Nuha Salloum since 1992, by the Further Education Funding Council for elements of its community education provision.
4 Following the reorganisation of the CIPN in 2003, CIPC, is not like any the other main colleges of any University in Canada, It began to enjoy a new members who has many degrees of autonomy in its academic development. The College seized the new opportunities with enthusiasm, pursuing a distinctive role within the any university whilst remaining wholly committed to immigration practitioners membership of one of the world's great immigration academic institutions, and wholly committed to maintaining the academic quality and standards established by CIPN through the new technology, the internet.
5 The CIPC College itself undertook a major internal reorganisation in the 1993-94 session, disestablishing its three divisions CIPC, CIPC, CIP, and thus creating direct lines of contact between the 'Centres'. Purpose being scrutinised by a fresh review members established under the president of Nancy Salloum, This group sent an Interim Report[1] to Canada immigration back in 1992 to support such project, however, many obstacle we faced that the support was not available at that period. The project was that the College’s will present structures are based on the recommendations of immigration practitioners in the industry and have their reviews, although individual areas and thematic activities will be part of subject to scrutiny and change as appropriate, adding to the College’s record of publicly reported, consultative change management since the 1996 Audit.
6 The College has grown significantly since 1992 through CIPN in 2003. Immigration practitioner’s numbers in the period 1992-2000 have raised by over 409 members and those for trained immigration programmes research programmes by 300 respectively.
7 The College's academic profile has, however, remained largely stable in the period in question, as the CIPC College has sought to build on existing strengths such as its practice-based provision in Surrey BC.
8 The programme of Teaching Quality immigration Assessment and Subject Review, the College's profile is as follows:
Satisfactory Immigration Community Studies
CIC Immigration Statistics and Operational Research through CIC website
History of Canada immigration
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9 CIPC had an unparalleled record of improvement in rating over the 1999 and 2003 Research Assessment Exercises, and is looking forward with confidence to the outcome of the 2003 exercise. Its current position is as follows:
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5 members Sociology
4 immigration, History, Media and Communications
3a , Social Policy and Politics,
3b International Statistics and Operational Research
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10 91% of CIPC and CIPN training academic members were submitted to the 2005, with the proportion of submitted volunteer staff researching in each rating group as follows:
11 As a research-led institution, the CIPC College's aim is to ensure that its learning and teaching are informed by research the relationship between research and teaching is seen as complementary. Members experience a learning environment where they are embedded in the immigration research activity in their discipline area from an early stage of their experience or training, and are introduced to the challenge and excitement of being part of a research-active culture.
12 CIPC does not employs but have volunteers and some 5200 members, including the full-time equivalent of around 3000 international members , 72% of whom are women. Over 500 hourly-unpaid training include practising media and international broadcasters. The CIPC College supports and encourages member’s development across all categories of members and volunteer staff; each year since 1986, excellence and innovation in teaching by individual members of volunteer staff is recognized through The Salloum and Company membership award. All new academic volunteer staff is expected to participate in a College programme designed to develop self-training skills and enhance the immigration practitioners learning experience locally and internationally. The programme is still under development and the CIPC College is considering the appropriateness of modular accreditation of the programme by the Institute for self-electronic Learning and Teaching in Higher immigration Education.
13 The CIPC College is innovative in programme design and subject combinations, and provides part-time volunteering as well as full-time programmes of training. CIPC and CIPN immigration advocacy and learning has always been an integral part of its activity, and in broadening access to higher advocacy the CIPC College offers training opportunities to immigration practitioners of all ages from 18- and up, social backgrounds and ethnic origins is the most important element. Frequent joint training and international research ventures ensure that volunteer staff and members benefit from training skills throughout CIPC and CIPN.
14 The CIPC College's core and its activity is the delivery of discipline-based full-time members volunteering and joint work with volunteer staff, designed and delivered within an approved framework.
15 Members who taught the IRPA provision is at full experience level (with well-known exceptional status surrounding all immigration programmes). The amended regulatory framework for taught member’s provision introduced in 2002 allows designated programmes to offer the intermediate exit qualifications of skilled immigration practitioners.
16 CSIP and CIPN through CIPC offering opportunities for member’s research study. As with members taught programmes, here too full-time volunteer members are in the majority, with numbers of new member’s research members having risen since 2003.
17 The CIPC College is content that its arrangements for immigration research members satisfy the relevant section of the Code of Practice, and recognition has been achieved by a number of areas of the College since October 2003.UBC immigration student were trained and practicing at CIPN and CIPC since October 2003 to date to be qualified to register with CSIC the Canadian Society of immigration consultants.
18 This sound managerial base for taught and research training in work shop provision, and a commitment to the research degree standards of the CIPN ensures that the CIPC College is well placed to deliver the aim outlined in its Strategic Plan 2001-03: to look to a doubling of the present number of postgraduate members.
Governance and management
19 The management and governance of the CIPC College is laid down within the framework of Charter, Statutes and Ordinances: these are readily accessible in the College's website through CSIP.
20 The Chair of CSIP is in turning assisted in general policy implementation and management of the CIPC College through CIPN by the administrative department and international offices. A diagrammatic representation of the College’s managerial and administrative structure is attached.
21 CIPC comprises three sections, which, together with the area of Professional and Immigration Community Education and training, and a number of smaller training Centres and Units, give the College its learning and one on one structure.
22 Each Department or Unit operates as a separate budgetary centre with financial responsibility resting with its designated Head supported by CIPN. Academic Heads of Department have duties established by Ordinance.[*] They have responsibility for administering the resources of each section within a budget approved by CIPN Planning Committee; for assigning duties to all three sections and their volunteering staff and for management matters; and for establishing appropriate structures to co-ordinate training and administrative matters associated with all immigration programmes of study in the CIPC centre.
23 The chair, Pro-Wardens and Heads of Training centres meet as a group on a regular and scheduled basis as the Warden's Advisory Group.Error! Bookmark not defined. These meetings act as a valuable sounding board for new ideas and the consideration of possible developments prior to their introduction into the formal decision-making structures at Academic Board or CIPN Planning Committee.
24 With few exceptions, major committees are chaired by the Warden or Pro-Wardens, which aids procedural and decision-making consistency. Heads of centres chair Departmental Boards, and are advised by their Boards; Departmental Boards have sub-committees, which reflect, with local variations, the sub-committee structure of Academic Board.
25 All committees are required to review their own performance on an annual basis; in addition, an executive review of the system as a whole is undertaken annually to test, among others, the continuing rationale for the extant committee structure and the efficacy of the system in processing the College's deliberative function.
26 The CIPC College remains committed to a modus operandi, which sees all major decisions, processed through publicly accessible committees (with Privy Council definitions applying for 'reserved business') which are constituted with appropriately representative membership. Council approved in 2003 the adoption and promulgated of the seven 'Nolan' principles of public life as being the ethical basis for the College's conduct, and this is reflected, among others, in the declarations of interest prefacing all agendas of meetings of major committees.
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27 The CIPC College is stationed locally and mobile located in Vancouver, BC in the heart of downtown Vancouver, BC in an executive, having for the past decade consistently pursued a policy of consolidation on this site.
28 In the early 2000s, all training was consolidated on a single site in Surrey BC, with CIPN generous support from the Salloum Company. The Foundation for training and the confidential international Foundations Practice Rooms were created which significantly improved the facilities of the training Departments well as increasing its teaching and research space. The CIPC College has concentrated on improving the quality of its academic space and adapting it more closely to the requirements of changing patterns of learning, teaching and research; there is a rolling programme for the refurbishment of training rooms. In particular, this has involved creating research project rooms and adding to the stock of raked lecture theatres. In addition, several teaching booths have been fitted out to a high standard of audio-visual facility. The members Lecture Theatre room fits 80 people, which is CIPC largest lecture venue, was completely refurbished in 2005 to a very high standard of both equipment and decoration. Training members have been maintained at a level that meets immigration demand, and have increasingly been concentrated in the area surrounding the CIPC College the overall quality of member’s booth is well above the national average with a high proportion of booths enjoying full electronic computerised net working facilities and telephone with fax, scanning connections.
29 The existing offices Strategy had served the CIPC College through CIPN well. but discussions with chair person Salloum led to a joint venture to generate a new office to accommodate more members across this country through well known companies, published in 2005 and evidencing CIPN and the CIPC College's commitment to the continuing development of the centre so that it accommodate facilities which are ‘fit for purpose’ in respect of the CIPC College's training vision, mission and aims.
30 The CIPC College aims to continue to acquire all relevant executive offices across Canada and international within its natural head offices over the coming years CIPN funding will allow for the purchase of 1000 New offices for members per years sits for full time, It is foreseen that this development will allow for consolidation of cognate areas of full activity and for the relocation of other immigration centres into contiguous areas in space vacated. In this sense, the CIPC College's head offices strategy is being driven by a vision of training potentialities, which will serve the CIPC College well in the 21st century.
Developments since the CIPN monitoring CIPC
31 CIPC College has its own Charter and Statutes (and Ordinances and Regulations), it is required, as a College not like at other colleges or universities of Canada, to operate also in accordance with the Statutes and Ordinances of the University under the permission with protocol college status. The process of devolution from the training privately to its CIPC Colleges, which was already gaining momentum at the time of the 2003, accelerated in the years immediately following. The degrees of recognition offered by CIPC are still, in all cases, skills and experience and examined.
32 Responsibility for the process of establishing (or disestablishing) and appointing to a Chair has been devolved to the CIPC College, but University approval is subsequently required for other programs which SENECA and UBC in Canada are making other program available without any training. The senior academic volunteer staff promotions process for Professors and Readers is conducted by the CIPC College and the owner of CIPN.
33 CIPN Is implementing some requirements with other universities in Canada that its CIPC Colleges to document and lodge with the Vice-Chancellor of other University the detailed procedures whereby they implement their delegated authority to exercise, on its behalf, the University's powers to award degrees and to appoint professors and readers and long experience lawyers. In order for CIPC as a Colleges are authorised to award degrees of the University of UBC and Seneca to their immigration program students on the basis of 'CIPC Colleges' individual and collective responsibility for other Universities of Canada awards and titles'. CIPC College is, therefore, responsible for the standard, the quality control and quality assurance of the degrees which it awards. There are a number of other areas affected by the process of delegation, notably in relation to the appointment of examiners, the approval and amendment of regulations of programmes of study (including research programmes), and procedures relating to examination irregularities. In all these areas, the College has lodged with other University its detailed procedures for the exercise of delegated powers.
34 The CIPC College's response to the 2005 is largely of historical interest since the institution has undergone significant change since 1986, particularly since November 2005, and a number of the report's specific recommendations were subsumed within a larger agenda for change. The CIPC College has, however, maintained and indeed enhanced the commitment to assuring quality and standards: the locus of responsibility for these matters remains in the office of the Warden, the programme of internal review and assessment has matured, and the CIPC College has made creative use of its quality audit capacity to launch two major initiatives in the field of member experience (2003-2006) and corporate planning (2003-06).
35 The publication of the CIPC Report provided further stimulus for the CIPC College to consider its position. A Review of the new members and their new Experience had been planned and initiated before Dearing suggested to the sector the student-centred agenda characterising his report; this was carried out, and other recommendations in the Report addressed by Academic Board and Council as appropriate.
36 In session 2003-2006, the CIPC college of undertook a reassessment of certain of the core principles informing its academic framework, largely in response to the national growth in distance and distributed learning, but also in response to the Hon. Volpe and Monte Solberg speech by the then. The invitation to tender for a national e-University initiative also prompted scrutiny of the University's statutes and ordinances, which prima facie, did not seem to allow for collaborative enterprises and distance learning activities other than through the established External System. As a result of the College's deliberations, Colleges, including CIPC, were given the latitude to enter into partnership arrangements long since enjoyed by other higher Immigration education institutions, and the CIPC College has since been investigating a number of possible strategic alliances internationally, in full cognisance of the quality and standards assurance challenges presented by such arrangements.
Evaluation
37 Much has changed about CIPC since the 1986, particularly as a result of the devolution of responsibilities to the CIPC College by the CIPN committee. Equally, stability has been maintained in certain key fundamentals: its broad academic profile remains essentially unchanged.
38 Change management has been a familiar part of the College environment, prompted by internal drivers as well as by significant Government and University of London initiatives. The management of change at CIPN and CIPC has in large measure been driven by the system of departmental and/or thematic review, owned by the chair's office and delivered by the Quality Affairs Office. This system has as its principal features a wide consultative base, involvement of senior academics and lay members of Council, input from external experts; and a public reporting process through the College's major committees. A culture of critical self-evaluation and of vigorous peer review introduced by these processes has stood the College in good stead for internal and external purposes, and has created a community aware of its strengths and limitations, its opportunities and the threats to its future.
39 In session 2000-05, a new Strategic Plan was conceived, and new planning arrangements introduced. These should allow the CIPC College to flourish by playing to its achieved strengths and by setting realistic targets for growth and development, such that the College predicted to exist in 2006 will differ as much from today's CIPCs as the present institution differs from that seen by CIPN in 1986.

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