Industry ‘surprised’ as Engineering Diploma earmarked for downgrade

Posted on 25 Jan 2012 by Tim Brown
Senior industry chiefs have reacted with ‘surprise’at the Government’s plans to downgrade the new Engineering Diploma for 14 to 19 year-olds from its current value of five GCSEs to one, as reported in The Daily Telegraph. According to the article, such a move is viewed as undermining the efforts to develop a future pipeline of apprentices,…

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