Who thinks NCFE and BTEC make sense to be qualifications?

I still disagree.

I say that they are wrong because how would they like it if they not only started from BTEC level 3 or below, but attended university with it, yet could only become a fast food servant, whilst even a 16 year old A-level student works at Next?

After year 11, firstly I earned a level 1 pass in NCFE CACHE certificate in childcare, secondly a level 2 pass in BTEC first certificate in business and thirdly, a level 2 pass in extended certificate I digital multimedia skills.

After just receiving my level 1 pass, I should have been accepted into any part-time job one has after just starting a level 2 course just after Year 11.

There is no point of GCSE mathematics and English language being an entry requirement for A-levels and higher when those with them under grade 4 have part-time jobs, anyway.

NCFE and BTEC level 3 are not even higher nor equivalent to GCSEs. They are not even qualifications. They are below junior bronze medals.

If you have an NCFE or BTEC level 3, yet your employer has declined you for your GCSEs, GCSEs are higher than NCFE and BTEC, sonu have been tricked into a fake qualification.

I should never have attended college except for GCSE plus, which I never knew about.

Who will be taking a level 1 course or has already done so and has a part-time job? I would love to know.

This year, I will take work experience until I earn a full-time job or a level 3 apprenticeship.

I am ever so grateful that EMA Training, Althaus Digital, Derby College, Pearson, AQA, and he Surry, Oxford and Cambridge University have one star reviews, anyway.