Update: 28/2/2007. Whether or not as a result of this posting, the JCQ site no longer requires you to access it via its terms and conditions page.
Thanks to Julia Duggleby for pointing out the UK's Joint Council for Qualifications web site. It is dated 2004, but has plenty of recent content. It should be in some sort of "hall of absurdity".Try it for yourself and you will see what I mean. I especially admire the way the site attempts to get you to approve its terms and conditions before you can enter it. Once you know the URL of a page you want to use, or someone sends you a URL in an email, you can avoid the terms and conditions page entirely. And organisations that link to the page (see for example this search return by Google) need JCQ's written permission to do it. Before I wrote this piece I did try over a several days to call the Joint Council for Qualifications. I got "This number is temporarily out of order. We are sorry for any inconvenience".
I can only agree with you wholeheartedly. However, I did manage to get permission to post weblinks to useful info for our students (so they could find the info they need this year, the same day I sent the email - still recovering from shock!A point to note - they don't take down out of date info, just add a new file with a different url. So if you don't know its been updated, you could get some less than helpful information.
Posted by: Karen Saunders | 04/09/2006 at 14:58