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For a start, the diplomas are set up as partnerships between schools, colleges and local universities and they have a lot of input from local employers.
Two other polytechnics have recently started offering Diploma courses to their students as well.
Not to mention that college seniors will soon grab diplomas and start their first "real" jobs.
So when administrators at Matthew's Louisiana high school suggested last year that he forgo getting a regular high school diploma and start working on a watered-down alternative diploma, Julie Comeaux was appalled.
"As these laws are phased in and kids really start to be denied diplomas, it'll go to lots of courts, and lots of legislatures," Robert Schaeffer of FairTest, a group in Cambridge, Mass., that is critical of standardized testing.
The examinations for my International Baccalaureate diploma started just as I entered full senior slide mode.
Cappelli has started a college diploma in mechanical engineering and is employed at Sussex University on a heating installation project.
This package contains several programs starting from a Diploma to the M.Sc.
