Lords echo industry’s fears over diploma qualification

18 June 2008

Members of the House of Lords have voiced ‘considerable reservations’ about the vocational element of the new diploma qualifications.

They echoed contractors’ over whether students of the Construction and Built Environment Diploma would gain enough hands-on experience.

‘We all have great hopes for the new national diplomas, although some of us have considerable reservations, in particular, about whether they contain relevant practical experience,’ Baroness Walmsley said.

One member said the Lords would ask the Government to show it had ‘properly thought through the practicalities, logistics, funding and organisation required to provide flexible, meaningful and desirable training courses for all these young people’.

Responding to the debate on the Education and Skills Bill, Joe Johnson, director of training at the Civil Engineering Contractors Association, said: ‘Contractors have been particularly unimpressed with the change in the work experience element to “experience of work.”’

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