"We're looking at that as a growth area," says Pine. "You'll find, increasingly, FE delivering qualifications abroad, rather than requiring students to come over to the UK.
"WJEC remains firmly committed to supporting high standards of education to learners in Wales, delivering qualifications which are rigorous, fair and valued".
Moreover, innovation and use of new technology are necessary to deliver the qualifications required by a knowledge-based labour market in constant flux.
Villas-Boas was dismissed in the wake of the home trouncing by Liverpool on Sunday with the Spurs chairman, Daniel Levy, unconvinced he could deliver Champions League qualification this season despite the club having spent £107m in the summer to revamp the squad.
Chief regulator Glenys Stacey said: "This is a very interesting time for qualifications, with real opportunities to deliver materially better qualifications, both general and vocational, that will better prepare people for the next stages in their education or careers.
"We are committed to keeping a tight grip on standards, so people can have confidence that qualifications represent a proper record of knowledge, skills and achievement, and to making sure qualifications deliver what their users - students, employers, teachers, universities - need from them".
For now, Benitez has calmed down the season, taken the team to the Europa League final and is one win away from again delivering Chelsea to Champions League qualification.
A new funding mechanism should embrace existing well-established qualifications such as higher national diplomas, but should also give scope to accredited higher education institutions, FE colleges and private providers to design and deliver their own qualifications if they can demonstrate sufficient rigour and industry engagement.
More than 70% of respondents were "barely confident" or "not confident at all" of their department's readiness to deliver the new qualifications on the current timescale.
Practitioners discussed their impressions of appropriate participants, timing, structure, and session preferences for SSTP, and implications related to the professional qualifications of practitioners delivering SSTP.
[This] programme is a specialist qualification delivered by leading tutors for the teaching of English to young learners.
