Schools shouldn't be discouraged from offering vocational options, according to Huggett, who fears that such subjects are being downgraded.
Clive Black, an analyst at Shore Capital, says: "Dalton is clearly under pressure because sales are falling and profits are being downgraded".
Most seriously, crimes are being downgraded; crime scenes are revisited, and victims called back, expressly so that reports can be revised, and the seriousness of the crime downplayed.
"Stocks are being downgraded, making people nervous, worried about" price-to-earnings ratios, said Mayer Offman, the chief trading officer at Carlin Equities.
"We are concerned that this appointment sends a signal to the world community that human rights are being downgraded rather than accorded the prominence we believe they deserve," said William F. Schulz, the executive director of Amnesty International USA.
For Jena's economic dynamism to continue, he says, it may have to try to attract highly qualified foreigners.Jena has other weaknesses too, not least that its two other large firms, Jenapharm and Schott, are being downgraded to mere manufacturing sites by their parent companies in west Germany; and that there is a marked absence of the Silicon Valley kind of venture capitalist.
Also, "The Reagans" is being downgraded, not killed.
The union said some roles were being downgraded.
Now Spain is being downgraded and has soaring deficits.
It looks very much like more serious crime was being downgraded.
Yet the most flexible and agile naval surface ship – the frigate – is being downgraded.
