UK: Restaurant chain offers “McDiplomas” - (Associated Press)
January 29, 2008 – 5:57 pmLONDON — The UK government is giving McDonald’s Corp. — along with a rail company and an airline — the power to award the equivalent of advanced high-school qualifications as part of a plan announced Monday to improve young people’s skills.
The story says that McDonald’s, which has more than 1,000 outlets across Britain, will train employees for a qualification in “basic staff management,” giving them the financial and practical skills to run a restaurant.
Some business leaders are supportive of the new programs, which mark the first time commercial companies have been allowed to award nationally recognized qualifications based on their own workplace training plans.
Critics, however, complain that the diplomas are not sufficiently academically rigorous.
The courses will be the equivalent of a GCSE, the standard exam taken at the age of 16 years in England and Wales, an Advanced Level, the higher exam taken at 18, or, in Flybe’s case, a […]
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