Whereas most people work for a few years to gain experience and save money before embarking on the prestigious Masters degree, Spyros Pyrgiotis, 24, is in a hurry to gain the qualification he hopes will give him the skills to found a business.
Giggs, who has decided to take the course under the aegis of the Football Association at St George's Park rather than of the Football Association of Wales, will undertake 240 hours of study to gain the qualification – including spending three days at a European club and making a detailed case study of a business.
It's a great way to gain the qualifications, skills and experience needed to become a support worker while earning money at the same time".
At the moment we are already required to teach English and maths functional skills to our students in order for them to gain the qualifications.
It's not only the obvious effect – that young people will have less opportunity to gain the qualifications they need to enter university – that matters.
The ever-changing marketplace has allowed for the growth of emerging economies, particularly in Asia, where students are looking to gain the qualifications they need to better their chances of getting a skilled job.
A child in a household living below the poverty line is less likely than other children to succeed at school and to gain the qualifications which allow them to escape from poverty.
Whether they're aiming for an apprenticeship, as an estimated 280,000 young people did last year, or for university, we want children to gain the qualifications and skills that employers, colleges and universities value.
It took me three years of nightschool, while working full-time as a miner, to gain the qualifications to apply for journalism college; then a further two years of rejections before I was accepted.
Sure, she had won 121 caps as a centre-back for France's women's team, then served for six years as that team's assistant manager under Bruno Bini and, in May 2014, had become the first woman in France to gain the qualifications that entitled her to run a professional team.
