I just got a good giggle from my inbox. The Tri-coaching partnership has sent out an email which is titled “supply and demand lead to profit”.
No, really?
If you feel that you need to go on the course to find out how this complex concept works it’ll cost you at least £275 – or £400 if you want the BTEC certificate at the end. As I have said in the About Me page, my experience of NVQs and BTECs is that they aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. The one being touted here is Level 3, and is therefore apparently “worth” three A levels.
Three A levels in just two days, for £125? Hang on a minute while I try not to choke laughing.
If my memory serves me correctly, an A level was something that took two years of full-time study and hard work. It culminated in a difficult exam (possibly several, depending on the subject). Back when I did them – when they were still hard – you usually only took two, unless one of them was in a non-science subject. Failure was a distinct possibility. What an A level wasn’t was something you acquired just by turning up and paying a wad of cash for over two days (if you tried to get one that way, chances are you’d get kicked out of sixth form or find yourself on criminal charges). And you couldn’t get more than one A level from a single course – each one was a separate entity, and two A levels was twice as much work as one.
But I can’t get that “supply and demand lead to profit” thing out of my head. Anyone who needs to attend a course to discover that shouldn’t be allowed out on their own!