{"id":17594,"date":"2015-05-19T21:12:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T20:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=17594"},"modified":"2015-05-19T21:12:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T20:12:34","slug":"pick-an-a-level-any-a-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=17594","title":{"rendered":"Pick an A Level&#8230; Any A Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a good giggle from my inbox. The Tri-coaching partnership has sent out an email which is titled \u201csupply and demand lead to profit\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>No, really?<\/p>\n<p>If you feel that you need to go on the course to find out how this complex concept works it\u2019ll cost you at least \u00a3275 &#8211; or \u00a3400 if you want the BTEC certificate at the end. As I have said in the <a title=\"About Me\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?page_id=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">About Me<\/a> page, my experience of NVQs and BTECs is that they aren\u2019t worth the paper they\u2019re written on. The one being touted here is Level 3, and is therefore apparently \u201cworth\u201d three A levels.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Clown College - for all your worthless qualifications\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/364;border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Clown College - for all your worthless qualifications\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/clown_college.jpg\" width=\"524\" align=\"left\" height=\"364\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/p>\n<p>Three A levels in just two days, for \u00a3125? Hang on a minute while I try not to choke laughing.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8211; when they were still hard &#8211; 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\u2019t 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\u2019d get kicked out of sixth form or find yourself on criminal charges). And you couldn\u2019t get more than one A level from a single course &#8211; each one was a separate entity, and two A levels was twice as much work as one.<\/p>\n<p>But I can\u2019t get that \u201csupply and demand lead to profit\u201d thing out of my head. Anyone who needs to attend a course to discover that shouldn\u2019t be allowed out on their own!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a good giggle from my inbox. The Tri-coaching partnership has sent out an email which is titled \u201csupply and demand lead to profit\u201d. No, really? If you feel that you need to go on the course to find out how this complex concept works it\u2019ll cost you at least \u00a3275 &#8211; or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}