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Government responds to IT skills shortage with new qualification for UK professionals
Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson
Ahhh Gordo is now involved so you know it's going to be worth flip all
Gordon Brown has denied that allowing McDonald’s and other firms to offer A-level-style qualifications represents a dumbing down.
He insisted the new courses would be tough and intensive.
Speaking ahead of the formal launch of the qualifications this morning, he said: "If McDonald’s do it, it is not that standards are going to fall, in fact it is going to be a tough course. Once you have got a qualification in management you can probably go anywhere.
"I think that is the important thing - companies prepared to train people up which they weren’t doing before, in the way that we want them to do, in a far greater number, so that people have the qualifications for the future."
Other firms such as Network Rail and FlyBe, the budget airline, have also won approval to offer the new diplomas which are part of the latest drive to boost the numbers of skilled workers in the country.
They are the first three companies to have been given "awarding body" status by the exams watchdog the Qualifications Curriculum Authority to enable them hand out certificates to Level 3, the equivalent of A level standard.
How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think
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