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Apprentice at BBC Weather – Dilani’s story

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  • Duration: 0 mins
  • Publication date: 18 Sep 2018
  • Part of series The IET Annual Dinner

Abstract

Meet Dilani, a Degree Apprentice software engineer in the BBC’s weather team. She’s the first person in her family to go to University, and with her father unable to work for health reasons, she has overcome significant challenges to get to where she is and fulfil her engineering dream.

The IET’s Engineering Horizons Bursaries offer Dilani and engineers like her invaluable financial support while they study or train. Now there’s a new way you can help them – come to the IET Annual Dinner and your ticket will help contribute to the scholarships and bursaries fund.

Because nothing should stand in the way of an exceptional career in engineering.

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  • IET
  • apprenticeships
  • bursaries
  • engineering
  • scholarships
  • software engineering
  • technology
  • weather

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    Dilani Selvanathan

    BBC, Degree Apprentice

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