New CTA exams: The choice is yours. By Simon Groom
Simon Groom wonders if more choice is a good or a bad thing when it comes to the new CTA structure.
If we have choice we have too much to think about, but if we do not have choice we complain about being forced into something we do not want to do. As the saying goes, you can’t please all of the people all of the time, but generally I think we prefer to have choice rather than not.
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Dumbing down
Excuse me for cynicism, but I believe (on good evidence) that my late 70s and early 80s school qualifications, law degree and ACA and ATII/CTA qualifications were probably much harder to pass than the equivalent exams people sit these days, many of which seem designed to fulfil quotas, whether of governments, educational institutions or professional bodies.
Whether that makes me a better tax adviser than someone qualifying today is of course moot, but the exam process has been dumbed down everywhere in the UK.
I blame Jade Goody.