We should look forward to McD training with relish

There were burgers before there was McDonald's - just as there were qualifications before the Prime Minister grabbed the headlines by allowing the fast-food chain to put them on its menu. A-levels from McDonald's is a slick bit of marketing. It stirs up a hornet's nest and attracts attention to the bigger underlying purpose of the story. It kick-starts an awareness that there's more than one way to get qualifications in the modern world. It also creates competition in the education market-place.