No, it’s a BTEC.

[ElleneAsanto]

Just sent my annual results day email to the BBC.

It’s a qualification approved by the Business and Technology Education Council.

I’m usually a staunch defender of (or apologist for) Auntie Beeb, but they are the only organisation to refer to it as a “BTec”. It’s obviously set in their style guide. Presumably they think the awarding body (Pearson Education) and every other media outlet are wrong?

What is it that the Beeb says, which annoys you, and what is it that you want them to say?

As it says in the OP the BBC write it as BTec instead of BTEC. Presumably treating the capitalisation to match BEng. Which is foolish of them.

Thank you. I see. It's not what they say. It's how they write it.

That's the Bbc for you.

Yes, as clearly explained by the OP with her use of quotation marks.

This gives me the rage.

Wayyyyyy back in the Dark Ages, they were written as BTec. Not BTech, as that's an entirely different qualification, but I expect that's the main reason why they changed it to capitalise all of the letters (possibly originally intended to differentiate between the council and the qualifications they offered).

I was dealing with them in Academic management today and if I go back to the Archived qualifications and their QNs, it's still there as BTec or Btec as imported from them and/or the DfE.

I had wondered whether she had heard the BBC pronounce it in a strange way.

Ooooh I saw this as well.

Actually the BBC News website is soooo full of errors nowadays I expect nowt less.

Have they corrected it? People who call it Btech or some other variant also annoy me. See also "business studies" which has just been business at GCSE and A level for quite a while.

Is it because you pronounce it "Bee Teck" rather than "Bee Tee Ee See"? I think the BBC write Nasa rather than NASA, for example.

But even that doesn't really explain BTec - surely it would be Btec (which I am fine with tbf - like Nasa or Nato). It's not as if you could mis-say Btec, you would have to say the B separately as we don't have a bt sound to start a word anyway.