{"id":6621,"date":"2013-10-18T19:09:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T18:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=6621"},"modified":"2013-10-18T19:09:16","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T18:09:16","slug":"ifa-agm-agrees-push-towards-royal-charter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6621","title":{"rendered":"IfA AGM agrees push towards Royal Charter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The recent AGM of the Institute for Archaeologists (IfA) has agreed the petition to seek a Royal Charter.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The IfA reports on its AGM as follows:<br \/>\n<\/span>\u2026 Business then moved to the resolution requesting members to instruct Council to submit a formal petition to the Privy Council to obtain a Royal Charter of Incorporation for the Institute. Peter Hinton introduced the resolution, noting that this had been one of the most important areas of business for Council in recent years and that this was a significant moment in the development of the Institute. He reminded the meeting of the stages the drafting of the petition had been through, and the changes to the governance structure that are linked with this. Obtaining a Royal Charter would have a significant effect in raising the profile and status of the Institute and create a parity of esteem with other professions. A unanimous \u2018yes\u2019 vote was made for this resolution followed by a round of applause.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">IfA news<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archaeologists.net\/news\/131010-agm-update-vote-charter-developing-profession-and-new-council-members\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent AGM of the Institute for Archaeologists (IfA) has agreed the petition to seek a Royal Charter.\u00a0 The IfA reports on its AGM as follows: \u2026 Business then moved to the resolution requesting members to instruct Council to submit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6621\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6622,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions\/6622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}