Scholarships and Bursaries are available for anyone starting an engineering or technology degree/apprenticeship. If you, your children, relatives or friends are about to start an engineering or technology degree OR are already in any year of your/their course or apprenticeship and need financial support - the IET has scholarships and bursaries you/they can apply for!
All information about the Diamond Jubilee Scholarships and the Engineering Horizons Bursary is available on the website: www.theiet.org/scholarships
The deadline for applications is Thursday 12 September.
Amber Thomas:
Denis McMahon:
I am tired of the arguments we often hear at this time of year, that standards are falling, hence more people are passing or the results are not worth as much as they used to. If would be good if we could have a look at some GCE papers of the 1960s for a side-by-side comparison with papers of these days.In a peer-reviewed article in the British Educational Research Journal, "mathematics experts judged A‐level scripts from the 1960s, 1990s and the 2010s.... the experts believed current A‐level mathematics standards to have declined since the 1960s, although there was no evidence that they believed standards have declined since the 1990s. " The original paper is here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/berj.3224 (and an overview is in this Daily Mail article https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3458830/Pupils-B-grade-level-maths-today-scored-E-50-years-ago-study-shows-exams-got-easier.html)
Roy Bowdler:
In the news today. This is the pathway to becoming an Engineer for many and considered "equivalent" to having completed a skilled apprenticeship by the educational establishment.
Roy Bowdler:
There is a solid tradition of graduate training schemes offered by larger employers, with Chartered Engineer recognition expected from around 4 years into career. Getting top A levels in Maths & Science is an essential gateway to this pathway. Many who prove eventually to be excellent engineers, either don’t get on to this “fast-track” pathway by means of their teenage academic aptitude, of “fall-off” by not gaining a graduate training place, which get many more applicants than there are places.
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