In october's MT convention it was decided that the next practical level after META-MP would not be a "Specialist" but be called "Expert", and that candidates must show their experience (not just attending courses but work in the field) and expertise in a chosen field, by writing a thesis. (2 have  submitted their thesis by now)

A meeting was held with the MHU candidates, to them it was guaranteed to apply the requirements published when they signed up for the training. A Certification Comittee was established for that purpose. I referred to this in above post when suggesting that individual candidates might choose to be certified by a committee (but that is extra work that would have to be paid for).

The online exam and the IMMA site were not purposefully changed, but they proved unsafe to use and therefore had to be taken down earlier than planned. Obviously, the exam can not easily be reinstalled for technical reasons and lack of resources. 
Therefore I was asking who have been using it (as we in Germany for example had lots of problems with exams being zeroed or sent prematurely, I have been using a mirror of the questions in our own programme instead).

You will probably have to use a print-out form of the exam for the time being, as long as we don't find another voluntary programmer who sets it up completely anew, for Thorsten is overloaded at the moment.