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Previously on "Government responds to IT skills shortage with new qualification for UK professionals"

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  • Nicky G
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    Wish I had taken this before I started working there.

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  • KathyWoolfe
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Oh but you look 22-23-ish

    Thank you, my secret is that I regenerate after every 1000 years or so.
    Last edited by KathyWoolfe; 28 January 2008, 15:31.

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by KathyWoolfe View Post
    well before my 39th birthday.
    Oh but you look 22-23-ish

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  • KathyWoolfe
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    Originally posted by threaded View Post
    Must be young it you've not had that yet then?

    Not from a manager outside of McD's or BK and I've been in IT for longer than I care to remember - well before my 39th birthday.

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  • threaded
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    Originally posted by KathyWoolfe View Post
    Just imagine, - when a manager signs off a deliverable the parting words will be "D'you want fries with that?"
    Must be young it you've not had that yet then?

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  • KathyWoolfe
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    Originally posted by threaded View Post
    McDs - B.A. Burger Flipping, LL.B. Customer Negotiations, B.Sc. Deep Fat Fryer Control Systems Engineering.
    Just imagine, - when a manager signs off a deliverable the parting words will be "D'you want fries with that?"

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  • ratewhore
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    Once you have got a qualification in management you can probably go anywhere.
    Jeez, we've all seen the spotty 'erberts that pass for 'Managers' in Maccy D's...

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  • PAH
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    Originally posted by Troll View Post
    He insisted the new courses would be tough and intensive.
    Just like their meat then. If the animals were truly free range they'd have hopped over the fence long ago.

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  • Troll
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    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.

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  • BrilloPad
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    I got a first. Seems I can ask "would you like that to go?" in just the right tone...

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  • NoddY
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    ContractorUK - B.Sc. House Price Studies & Armchair Economics.

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  • realityhack
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    Microsoft - Usability and HCI.

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  • realityhack
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    The Church of Satan are proud to announce their sponsorship of the REC Qualification.

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  • gingerjedi
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    Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

    ....

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  • realityhack
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    Halliburton B.A. International Politics

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