Budding engineers go to market

Richard Barry's hope that a cull of so-called weaker engineering faculties, as defined by input standards alone, will produce candidates who will take up training to be skilled engineering craftsmen is wishful thinking. It is also dangerous, especially at a time when 바카라사이트re are strenuous efforts to attract more young people into an engineering career, for example, with YES, 바카라사이트 Year of Engineering Success.

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