Last quango in London
16th February 1980, Page 63
16th February 1980
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IN my piece on February 2 saying that "the responsibilities of existing institutions for raising standards in the engineering profession must not be transferred to a national engineering authority", a line of clarification was left out.
The formation of such an authority is suggested in the Finniston Report. And I suggested that Gordon Dawson, president of IMechE, would be supported in this view by the IRTE. What was not printed was that ''if it were a tool of government and not of the professionGordon Dawson would find it completely unacceptable,