Interesting so far, it seems like there are a few differences in the "traditional" accedemic routes but it appears that when the batchelors degree (which in the UK we normaly just call degrees as we don't have the assosciate degrees), the systems become the same in the US and the UK.

I am skeptical about the NVQ system over here but maybe in time, they will prove worth while and I hope so and if they do, I wish they existed years ago. The problem I have would still exist though even under the current system (as far as I can tell - I think level 3 is the highest) and I worked at a supervisory level in IT - sort of job you now need a minimum of the HNC for - at leaset until schizophrenia set in... ah well such is life - I now have to gain a qualification to teach me to do what I've proven in industry I can do.

Jon