An online petition to Tony Blair to improve the status of engineers in the UK as recently been created. The petition is being signed by professional engineers and students alike, it would be good if we could add a few Bristol students names to the list to push it up the parliamentary agenda.
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From NCE Plus
Astronautics engineer Jon Jennings has this week leapt on the online petition bandwagon to call for the title of "engineer" to be a protected title. Jennings has joined an escalating list of people using 10 Downing Street's online petition trial to drum up support for his campaign to restore respect in engineers.
"Car mechanics, plumbers and electricians are now commonly referred to as engineers and banks now regard engineers as semi skilled," says his petition.
With 2,400 signatories to date, the petition already tops the "business and industry" category. But it still lags well behind the road pricing petition which received 1.7M signatories before it closed on Tuesday and even falls short of the 3,707 who want the prime minister to stand on his head and juggle ice-cream.
So if you agree that the status of the engineer is undervalued in society please sign the petition:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Engineer-Status/