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,MERC1AL vehicle operators and ifacturers may be expecting their technical college-educated coyees to have qualifications that are ly becoming obsolete.
is is the fear of Roy Cropper, lecturer avy vehicle engineering at Cornwall nical College, Redruth.
Cropper suspects that the industry It aware that the City and Guilds ncians level is being phased out and g replaced by the Technicians ation Council exams.
foresees students leaving technical colleges with the TEC qualifications finding employers still insisting on the City and Guilds exams. A spokesman for the Road Transport Industrial Training Board did not think this would commonly be the case. He said that there was a RTITB representative on the TEC board that draws up and administers the courses, and that the RTITB has given publicity to the new qualifications. He added that the TEC was still in its infancy, and by the time the changeover was completed next year the road transport industry would be completely conversant with it.