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So far only one private school, Wellington College, says it will teach the diploma, and then only in engineering, widely expected to be the most rigorous of the vocational subjects.
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S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Economics from the University of Sussex, England.
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An engineering diploma for teenagers downgraded in a shake-up of vocational qualifications is to be "reworked", the government has announced.
BBC: Government accused of engineering diploma U-turn
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At schools like P-Tech in Brooklyn, a collaboration between New York Public Schools, the City University of New York, and IBM, students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering.
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Now at schools like P-Tech in Brooklyn, a collaboration between New York Public Schools and City University of New York and IBM, students will graduate with a high-school diploma and an associate's degree in computers or engineering.
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Now at schools like P-Tech in Brooklyn, a collaboration between New York Public Schools and City University of New York and IBM, students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate's degree in computers or engineering.
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The engineering diploma was among 3, 100 qualifications downgraded by ministers in January.
BBC: Government accused of engineering diploma U-turn
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In particular the engineering community reacted angrily to the downgrading of the Engineering Diploma which was developed by leading academics and industrialists to provide a robust alternative to traditional academic qualifications.
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In January, members of the engineering community reacted angrily to the decision to lump the engineering diploma with weaker qualifications, voicing concern that schools would no longer consider it worth offering as the effort would outweigh the return in the league tables.
BBC: Government accused of engineering diploma U-turn