Jerry Jarvis, the managing director of Edexcel, one of the three bigexam boards, has said that early adopters of the diploma risk emerging with a worthless qualification.
The fear was that the English Baccalaureate certificate with its 'more challenging' tag, with its big bang end of year exam would mean universities and employers outside Wales regarded a qualification gained in Wales, in future, as not quite as shiny as the gold standard EBacc.