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Here are all the articles from our old website, pre 2019, you can search by category to the left, or for a specific word or person in the search bar above

Which Tablet For You

With Microsoft now offering you £150 for your old Apple IPad against a new MS Surface, the question it raises is which one would you buy. I had my IPad for 3 years before I bought a Surface RT and I was very happy with it. So why did I change? The simple answer was […]

Keeping your Membership Information Up To Date

From time to time, people change jobs, move house, telephone numbers or just their email address. Please remember to let the IAP office know about your changes so we can ensure we contact you at the right address/email/telephone and also keep our records up to date.

IAP Symposium

The next IAP Symposium will be held on the 8th of April 2014 at Kew Gardens. The title for this event will be ‘Internet Of Things’. As we firm up the speakers and other details about the Symposium we will let all our members know and post more information on the web site, LinkedIn and Twitter […]

Webinars, Training Bites and Useful Notes

The IAP is looking at ways to provide more useful information to its members. This includes Webinars, Short Training Videos (Bite Size) and short how to do articles. We would be interested in knowing what you think would be useful in each category (or other categories if you have them). For example, I have 2 […]

Membership Renewals

As mentioned about a week ago, we are introducing the ability to pay your membership renewal via World Pay. This went live yesterday evening and if your renewal is due you can login to the Members Area and pay. You can find the option under the ‘Paying Your Subscription’ menu option. This saves you time […]

Regional Fellows

The Institution has been quietly progressing a number of items related to the 10Es Transformation Programme over recent months. Alastair Revell (Director General) and Paul Lynham (Vice-President and Director for Member Engagement) have asked Santi Mondejar, FIAP to convene a group of Fellows who have expressed an interest in helping to set up a regional structure. […]

Online Payments

Shortly the IAP will be introducing the ability to pay your subscription online with your credit/debit card rather than having to ring into the office and give us your details. This is aimed at reducing costs on postage and telephone calls and reduces the risk of fraud. We will also be able to take payment […]

Job Target

The Institution has set up a job board in conjunction with JobTarget as part of its 10Es Transformation Programme. This will provide members with a portal to search for both jobs and candidates from the Institution’s website. JobTarget was chosen as it has entered into partnership with other institutions, societies and associations based in the […]

The 10 Es

We have now added the 10 Es to the main menu as some of you were having trouble finding them. If you would like to discuss anything please call the office.

IAP 2013 Prize – University Of Wales

This year the IAP Prize goes to Megan Goodwin from the University Of Wales, Newport. Here is what Megan has to say… I attended the University of Wales, Newport for 3 years, on the Games Development and Artificial Intelligence course. During my time at Newport, I worked with both programmers and artists to create games and simulations. […]