Dreams on the Bitface

I know I won't be the first to say it, but I'm now thinking of these vocational qualifications as a PhMcD.

I would hope that vocational qualifications (whether certificate or diploma or City and Guilds) would be done to a serious and validated level. And if you can learn to be a builder on an apprenticeship scheme and get a C&G for that (or a plumber or a welder or an electrician), then why not allow large hotel chains to issue an equivalent in Hotel Management, provided it is a validated set of training courses and the person has passed them. The only thing that having external examiners for a different "company" (which is what is mostly happening with A-Levels anyway) does is give a spurious feeling of confidence in grade based on the (seeming) lack of dodginess of the issuing authority.

But while I can argue against you, secretly I agree with you :-)