The kerfuffle over his
academic qualification is probably as far as he is concerned, a joke,
because afterall, he doesn't need more than a secondary school
certificate to be a member of the National Assembly.
Clifford Adelman, a researcher whose work for the U.S. Department of Education in the late 1990s helped shape the field's thinking about what constitutes sound
academic preparation for college, says that although occupational
certificates are becoming «the new currency» in the push for more postsecondary education, the value of many
certificates is questionable
because of a lack of consensus on the competencies required to earn them.