Re Biomedbill question. You are spot on when you say that the NVQ level 3 is essentially an OND in old money. The Foundation Degree year one is level 4 (HNC) and year two is level 5 (HND). If you were to go on and do a full honours degree you would be looking at level six and so on..... This is all part of the National Qualifications Framework and believe it or not it is designed to make it easier for students to decide the appropriate level of qualification. There are so many diplomas and certificates etc around these days, it is supposed to make it easy to find out what level of qualification you are undertaking.
Re Chris's question. The Guidelines for joining the VRCT are slightly complexed. Chris is correct is saying that as of January 07 a newly employed clinical technolgist will not be able to join the register via the Grand Parenting provision and therefore must have an VRCT approved vocational degree (the only at the moment being the training scheme for clinical technologists). The Eastwood Park degree has an Engineering Science element to it and is currently going through the approval process for the VRCT primary criterion.
Steve
