On 30/01/2020 08:48, Brian Gaff (Sofa 2) wrote:
A very blinkered and single minded view and almost insulting to many people
I'd suggest.

There's nothing insulting to encourage others to study to achieve a
qualification. After all, the requisite level,
somewhere between an 'O' and an 'A' level is reached by
many children and I am sure that no grwon up sees himself
as lower than children.

Indeed, in the days of the former RAE, otherwise-unqualified
self-taught 14-year-olds passed both that examination and
the 12 WPM Morse test with ease.