TAKING MICKEY IS OVER
Government to pull funding on 5,000 ‘Mickey Mouse’ qualifications
FIVE thousand vocational courses could be axed as part of a Government crackdown on “Mickey Mouse” qualifications.
Daft classes which get little or no take-up, including putting on a saddle and Thai massage, face being stripped of funding.
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The Government said 12,000 courses were available to over-16s, but 5,000 had fewer than 100 enrolled, with none at all in some.
Those under threat include a qualification in “recognising, putting on and cleaning a saddle”.
An entry level course in “angling skills” which had no students last year could also be axed.
Others in danger include “sugarcraft” — or cake decoration — and “single eyelash extension treatments”.
Anyone interested in the “safe use of a powered pole pruner” may also have to take another course. The Sun.
