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Welcome to the SACNASP home page
What is Professional Registration?
Professional registration is an
important career milestone for scientists. It shows that you’re a professional
and have the technical competence which is
valued by industry.
Professional
registration identifies you as a highly skilled professional with technical
knowledge and competence. Once you have gained professional registration you
may use letters after your name to identify yourself, e.g. M.E. Jones
Pr.Sci.Nat.
What are the benefits of professional registration?
- Indicating that your competence and commitment to professionalism have been assessed by other natural science professionals.
- Recognition that you have received education and training that meets standards for knowledge and experience.
- Acknowledgement of professional standing by peers and colleagues.
- Identifying you as having competences that employers value.
- Higher earnings, better employment prospects and career mobility.
- Access to a network of qualified professionals in your area of expertise, so you keep abreast of the latest developments.
Application for registration
Qualifications
and experience and proven competence determine the category of registration.
The initial step in registration is to complete and submit the
application. Your application must show that your education and
experience will make you eligible for registration in the category and
field of practice for which registration is required. It is,
therefore, most important that your application furnish sufficient
detail to enable the Council to make an adequate appraisal.
All directions must be followed. Failure to complete all parts of the
application or failure to provide all of the necessary details will
delay the processing of your application. After the Council has
reviewed and evaluated your application, you will be notified with
regard to the outcome.
SACNASP sets the standards for registration and keeps the Register of professional natural scientists.
Registration is open to all natural science professionals who can
demonstrate competence to perform professional work to the necessary
standards, and commitment to:
- Maintain that competence
- Work within professional codes
- Participate actively within the profession
MISSION STATEMENT
SACNASP strives to establish, direct, sustain and ensure a
high
level of professionalism and ethical conduct, that is internationally
acceptable and in the broad interest of the community as a whole and
the natural sciences.
OBJECTIVES
To promote the practice of natural science professions in
South
Africa, exercise control over the standard of professional conduct of
professional natural scientists, monitor the standard of education and
training of natural scientists and to recognise education and training
which is a prerequisite for registration in terms of the Act.
Our general e-mail address is sarnap@geoscience.org.za.
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