OK, i can see what this borne out of, in that Metro article, theres a comment along the lines of, this is the only award some of these kids are ever going to get.
So my guess would be, the "logic" behind all of this probably started when somebody thought "we really need to give these kids a taste of what it feels like to achieve an award, then hopefully a small percentage that perhaps wouldnt have previousely ever even considered doing well at their GCSEs etc, may now try".
HOWEVER, lets face it, the scheme is just silly, it makes a mockery of the vast majority who do not fall into the slightly mentally challenged criteria that something like this should be aimed at. Esepcially by wasting the resources of an official exam board in order to do the printing.
Stuff like this really makes me wonder how much of a barrier there is between the crackpots running our councils, and us. This is the kind of idea that should have come up during a "blueskies" session on a Friday afternoon, and then certain aspects drawn from it and used elsewhere. It most certainly should not have got to the stage where people of obviously normal intelligence are recieving official, ratified qualifications through the door from an exam board that they should have a healthy respect for
So my guess would be, the "logic" behind all of this probably started when somebody thought "we really need to give these kids a taste of what it feels like to achieve an award, then hopefully a small percentage that perhaps wouldnt have previousely ever even considered doing well at their GCSEs etc, may now try".
HOWEVER, lets face it, the scheme is just silly, it makes a mockery of the vast majority who do not fall into the slightly mentally challenged criteria that something like this should be aimed at. Esepcially by wasting the resources of an official exam board in order to do the printing.
Stuff like this really makes me wonder how much of a barrier there is between the crackpots running our councils, and us. This is the kind of idea that should have come up during a "blueskies" session on a Friday afternoon, and then certain aspects drawn from it and used elsewhere. It most certainly should not have got to the stage where people of obviously normal intelligence are recieving official, ratified qualifications through the door from an exam board that they should have a healthy respect for
