20,000 - good enough?

It looks like numbers starting the Diploma in September are going to be around 20,000 considerably less than the Government imagined when it set a "not a target" figure of 40,000.

Is this a bad thing - almost certainly not. The Diplomas are a complex qualification, they will need time to settle, they will also need time for those schools and colleges who are delivering them to learn the best ways and (in my view) get the right students on the courses.

So lets' assume that each of the 20,000 represent a potential problem, we now have either:

a) half as many problems
b) twice as much time to deal with them

I just hope that the focus is not on the numbers but on the Diplomas.

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J