The professionalqualificationcertificatesystemisanimportantcontent for thestatelaboremploymentsystem and oneof the state examinationsystems in specificformas well.
But he added: "This is a really good opportunity for our system and the secretary of state to look at our examinationsystem and ask whether it is rigorous enough, whether it's credible enough, whether what's happened over the last few years in terms of resits, early entries and the modular approach to to examination is actually raising standards".