The polymer industry is in serious need of trained specialists and a distance learning course run by De Montfort University is helping to fill that need.
Students are able to pursue the three-year course and yet remain at work and at home.
The first UK students studying the Distance Learning MSc in Polymer Technology launched by De Montfort University last year have all passed their Postgraduate Certificate Level. This is the first level of three to obtain an MSc. Next year the students will progress to the Postgraduate Diploma Level and then next year on to the Masters level. Students from the Netherlands studying a Postgraduate Diploma will finish that course a progress to the MSc in December 2000. The students were drawn from companies across the UK and had a range of academic and technical backgrounds, said course tutor Professor Malcolm Fox.