Just heard that the MCA are reviewing the exemptions for OOW and chief mate's writtens that you currently get for completing a foundation degree or professional diploma (in Scotland) course. There is a possiblility that the exemptions will be removed, although this won't be decided until July.
Thoughts on this? As someone who is currently in the middle of said course, its slightly annoying that I might have to do writtens and on the face of it, if this does go ahead, it would seem to remove any motivation whatsoever to do the foundation degree/PD. Why do all that extra work when you could just do the HNC/D and save yourself some stress? I suppose technically the FD/PD is a better academic qualification but once you have your OOW ticket then I doubt that is really going to make any difference...
Thoughts on this? As someone who is currently in the middle of said course, its slightly annoying that I might have to do writtens and on the face of it, if this does go ahead, it would seem to remove any motivation whatsoever to do the foundation degree/PD. Why do all that extra work when you could just do the HNC/D and save yourself some stress? I suppose technically the FD/PD is a better academic qualification but once you have your OOW ticket then I doubt that is really going to make any difference...
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