Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill
6:31 pm
Greg Watson: I am happy to answer that in all seriousness. The first thing is to repeat what I said earlier: a regulator that finds itself counting crashed planes and fining people for crashing them is an unsuccessful regulator. The important thing is that effort, power, authority and resource within Ofqual must be devoted to getting qualifications that are fit for use into the system in the first place. That is an important principle. The second thing concerns OCR, as I mentioned earlier. It is a charity, a not-for-profit organisation embedded in a university, part of an international group that lives on its reputation. The currency of the business we are in, if you want to call it that, is reputation, integrity and trust. If you want to wound my organisation, you wound its reputation rather than its finances. Most of what is envisaged for Ofqual will be about a public debate. If at any stage Kathleen and her colleagues were to feel that OCR was not doing its job properly, the threat of being shamed is much stronger than the threat of being fined for an organisation like mine.