affiliate wrote:I repeat Paper pusher is a sad man...
He just want to pick bits of what I say not in full...
I repeat what I said earlier..and hope this will console you..
Even the judge said there is no definition for UK RECOGNISED BACHELOR DEGREE, he used guidance and 1988 Act to define it.
My point is
1. Guidance is an invalid document. In fact the term is meaningless without guidance as the guidance says professional and foreign degrees are not accepted.
2. 1988 Act doesn't define the term.
3. If a body applies for degree awarding powers Secretary of State, with the opinion of QAA (should be level 6), can grant degree awarding powers based on certain criteria, which ACCA meets perfectly.
So it is QAA levels are appropriate (degree level as we say) as the term is not defined.
Hope all sadists agree...
Seriously, what is this with your use of the word 'sadist'? Do you know what it means? Please can you also stop the ad hominem attacks. I am perfectly fine and happy, and I am a woman. I hope you don't mean that I am pathetically inadequate when you use the word sad to describe me.
The 1988 act doesn't define the term degree in that section, but it does define who can award a degree. Only certain bodies can award things called degrees in the UK.
Interpretation
6. In these Rules the following interpretations apply:
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"a UK Bachelors degree" means
(a) A programme of study or research which leads to the award, by or on behalf of a university, college or other body which is authorised by Royal Charter or by or under an Act of Parliament to grant degrees, of a qualification designated by the awarding institution to be of Bachelors degree level; or
(b) A programme of study or research, which leads to a recognised award for the purposes of section 214(2)(c) of the Education Reform Act 1988, of a qualification designated by the awarding institution to be of Bachelors degree level.
What is your problem with this definition? ACCA qualifications do not meet this definition of a UK bachelors degree.
How do you think "UK recognised bachelor or postgraduate degree" means overseas qualifications and qualifications at degree level?
No one has disputed that ACCA is degree level, just that it is not a bachelor or postgraduate degree. It is like a degree, but it is not a degree.
ACCA doesn't have degree awarding powers. If it applied it may be able to get them, but ACCA has not been given degree awarding powers.
A professional
degree would be fine. Overseas degrees would not be fine because they are not UK degrees.
"A UK recognised bachelor or postgraduate degree"
I think you believe this means a qualification recognised in the UK as equivalent to a degree. I think it means a recognised degree from the UK and the term "recognised" is used to make clear that unrecognised degrees from the UK are not acceptable.
It was counsel for the ACCA students who sought to rely on the guidance.
The judge's conclusion in Syed is:
In a sentence, there had to be a degree and the ACCA qualification is not a degree.