Examination of Witnesses (Questions 260
- 261)
WEDNESDAY 7 MAY 2008
MS TERRY
MARSH, MRS
GEMMA MURPHY,
MS PAT
LANGFORD AND
FRANCIS EVANS
Q260 Chairman: You would look at
but you are not actively doing.
Mr Evans: When I say we look at,
if an organisation such as Smallpeice came and said will you accredit
our activity, one of the questions would be what are you doing
in this area and we would expect to see that they are taking active
steps such as Gemma described earlier on. From that accreditation
follows funding, so as Pat says we would hold their feet to the
fire if they did not.
Q261 Chairman: The last word, Gemma,
your organisation is very hot on this area. We have had their
feet to the fire, I presume you are doing this.
Mrs Murphy: As a charity we work
with students of all different abilities, gifted and talented
and also those that are more practical and will probably go down
the craftsmanship route. We work with students of all abilities
and we do work especially hard with ethnic minority groups and
females as well to get them into engineering.
Chairman: On that very positive note
could I thank Terry Marsh, Gemma Murphy, Pat Langford and Francis
Evans for being our witnesses; you have all been hot this afternoon.
Thank you very much indeed.
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