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Teach the children well

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We do have an image problem. Did anyone see the daily telegraph yesterday (Tuesday) where British Gas had a full page and a 1/2 saying get our engineers or something similar. You won't get an engineer out from BG you might get a technician and most likely a craftsman. When are the Institutions going to do something about the misuse of the term 'Engineer'. I'm about to ask the Institution of gas Engineers that question.

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9 May 2012

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5:07 pm

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