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Jewellery students want to save 'dying art'

James Bovill
BBC Midlands Today
Aston University Engineering Academy A T-level jewellery student working at a bench making an item of jewellery. She has a headscarf around her neck and holds tools in her hands. She wears a white top with a black apron over it and is looking down at what she is working on.Aston University Engineering Academy
Five students are studying the recently created T-level in Birmingham

Students studying what is claimed to be the UK's first T-Level in jewellery say they hope to stop the industry from becoming a "dying art".

Aston University partnered with the Goldsmiths' Company Charity to launch the course in September with five students.

They include 18-year-old Joana Silva, who said after seeing the lack of new blood coming into the jewellery industry, she wanted to help.

"I've noticed, after coming to this course, after being in the Jewellery Quarter, that it is a dying art," she said.

"When I went to [the jewellery firm] Toye, Kenning and Spencer, the only engraver they had was 86. So why wouldn't I want to and help":[]}