The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) could also see fewer recruits, but Vicky Purtill, head of qualifications, is upbeat and insists that employers will still want its legal executives.
Andy Tilden, head of qualifications at Skills for Care, which has helped todevelop the new level 5 higher apprenticeship qualification, says it is the only vocational course that can accrue university credit points.
Its head of marketing (qualifications), Susan Lawrance says: "They can tailor their assignment to the workplace, which gives their employer value for money".
Professor David Hargreaves, former head of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and main adviser to Estelle Morris on the reform of 14 to 19 education, has accused elitist dons of killing off the new qualification at conception.
Estelle Morris, the education secretary, duly sacked Sir William Stubbs, head of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, the government's exams watchdog, and ordered an inquiry which has recommended that 300,000 papers in 26 subjects should be reviewed.
A tip for succeeding in the hyper-competitive world of the bar, is "a willingness to think outside the box", says Aiden Brindley, the head of pre-qualification barrister recruitment firm Baby Barristers.
She continues: "Law firms are increasingly realising that they are missing out on some exceptional candidates and are beginning to become more flexible in the way they recruit graduates". A tip for succeeding in the hyper-competitive world of the bar, is "a willingness to think outside the box", says Aiden Brindley, the head of pre-qualification barrister recruitment firm Baby Barristers.
Students could also go to museums to look at the history of buildings and construction, or help organise visits to local authority planning departments to see how the system works, says Nick Gooderson, head of standards and qualifications at ConstructionSkills, the sector skills council in charge of the qualification.
GCSE exams are in need of a complete overhaul, the head of England's qualifications watchdog has admitted, after finding that a quarter of headteachers do not expect their pupils' grades to be accurate this summer.
A dearth of women working in head offices, a relative lack of qualifications and their continuing domination of lower status roles were to blame, the research found.
