I went to night classes at a further education college for two years, took English, History and Art, and gained all these educational qualifications which have never been any good to me.
Diplomas in science, languages and humanities had been planned to add academic rigour into the vocational qualifications, which have had a shaky start since their introduction in 2008.
Those voices came trailing educational qualifications, which had put them in their positions of authority – at the IMF, the Bank of England, the Treasury.
The Paris avant-garde's only partly facetious embrace of Rousseau, backed by Picasso and promoted by Guillaume Apollinaire, was the climax of its trashing of academic qualifications which had begun in the eighteen-eighties, when Paul Gauguin, in his thirties, abandoned a job in the stock market to devote himself to painting.
Education Secretary Michael Gove said the changes would extend opportunity because only qualifications which had demonstrated rigour, and had track records of taking young people into good jobs or university, would count in the future.
Or are they peddling a qualification which has simply transferred the burden of educating managers from companies to individuals, who now have ever decreasing time left to cover its cost?
The RSC's artistic director, Michael Boyd, said: "We are delighted to play a part in the development of this exciting new qualification, which has the potential to offer a real opportunity for rigorous, cross-disciplinary learning.
As well as football coaching, the players work towards a sports leaders qualification, which has brought about positive results.
From August 2015, teachers will be able to complete the new qualification, which has been designed by the Scottish College for Educational Leadership.
But this move by the new government leaves a question mark hanging over the qualification which has already struggled to make headway against A-levels and GCSEs.
Proposals to scrap the qualifications - which have now been dropped - would have added to growing differences with the Welsh system.
