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	10/06/08 at 11:19 AM	Reply with quote	#1

The Guardian has reported that "The Engineering Professors' Council (EPC) has written to the Commons education select committee to complain that the work-related diploma in engineering does not contain nearly enough maths to prepare students for university." "The engineering diploma, one of five due to be launched next year, cannot be considered equivalent to A-level. The Level 3 engineering diploma in its currently proposed form cannot be considered to be equivalent to A-level for the purposes of entrance to a university engineering course. Students on the engineering diploma course will only be required to receive 60 hours of maths tuition - less than an hour a week - compared with about 360 hours for a maths A-level." "Graham Lane, who chairs the Engineering Diploma Development Partnership, said maths and science would be taught throughout the course and students could study an A-level in maths as part of their diploma programme."
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