Dr. Michael Kyle:

That is correct, so what we need now is infrastructure. We need those people who are willing to set up the courses and the colleges themselves and to include physics in their apprenticeship offerings.

The second question concerned teaching to the test. There are many more teacher tests but they are very much particular to the teacher. Sometimes a very passionate teacher will get across the wonder of physics. The whole thing about physics is that it is a wondrous subject. To get that across is a bit hit and miss, is it not? I have noticed that applied mathematics has been overhauled. It is very much linked to physics. It is a type of physics, really. It used to be classical mechanics, a very niche area of applied maths, but now it has expanded to include many exciting new areas, such as networks and statistical processes. In applied maths, the way of assessing has been changed.