Institute of Quarrying - West of England Branch

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11^th April 2005 - Further Education in the Quarrying Industry

On Monday 11th April the branch held it's third technical evening of the 2005 programme which was well attended by the members.

The presentations 'Further Education in the Quarrying Industry' were given by, Toby White of Leeds University, and Jeff Frogatt of Doncaster College.

Firstly, Toby introduced the audience to a fast track tour of the 'goodquarry' website. Leeds University have offered the BSc in Quarry Management Course, now for some years.

In that time it has showed a decline in the number of students taking up the course and currently is experiencing difficulties in attracting students to take up the course.

He reported that currently the foundation Degree course is not running due to lack of numbers. Choice of course at the moment is the Mining and Mineral Engineering Degree (Quarrying) course.

An MSc Quarrying Management course is under development headed by the Cambourne School of mines with Leeds University input. This course is being designed to have 2 semesters. Firstly 11 weeks of residential teaching, then distance learning. Also an MSc Mineral Planning course is planned.

It was interesting to note some of the difficulties experienced by the Leeds team in striving to offer a degree level qualification. Firstly the university will not support foundation degree courses for industries that are not backed by world class research, and also more importantly companies are prioritising the NVQ schemes as a means to demonstrate competency.

On this note Jeff took the stage to talk about the DAPS scheme.

Doncaster Assisted Private Study (DAPS):
Essential Message

	Toby White of Leeds University, and Jeff Frogatt of Doncaster College.

A vote of thanks was given by Julian Cleeton.

A.Shakeshaft - Branch committee member