Four teachers, six levels, and a document we will not bend

The institute started with two teachers, one room and evening English, and the first two years were spent working out that the product is not really the sixty hours. Anybody can rent a room and teach sixty hours. What a student is left holding at the end is a document, and a document is worth exactly as much as the number of times its issuer has said no.

So the rules on it are short and they do not move. Eighty percent of the hours, a pass in the end of course assessment, and nothing else will do. Below that we issue a letter stating the course and the hours attended, which is honest and is not the same document however it is asked for. We are asked to issue a certificate for a course somebody did not attend about twice a year, sometimes by an employer paying the fee, and the answer has never been yes.

Verification is built the smallest way we could build it. A reference and a link on the certificate, a page that shows the same course, dates and hours the paper states, and nothing else about the student. No register anybody can search by name, because that is a list of our students handed to whoever asks.

The levels are ours too. We number them one to six and describe each in plain words rather than borrowing labels that get used loosely, so that somebody reading the page can tell what they would actually be doing in the room.