Chamber and committees

This is a devil’s advocate’s question. Is all this not getting a bit too much? Every representative before us today is arguing for having more than one space on all the different committees. We will end up with a massive organisation that is completely unwieldy, will we not? Megan Farr’s solution of having what is almost a separate structure for children in order to ensure that they are listened to in a different forum might be the way of doing it. To lead an organisation with everybody having the absolute representation that they think they deserve is surely a bit too much.

That is fair enough. How is the relationship between those who are appointees to support national qualifications and the existing staff managed? Is it a good relationship?

So there are no tensions between those two groups.

To go back to my first point, which your last comment agreed with, this is about leadership and not about staff. Should the leadership of the SQA remain in place as the leadership of the new qualifications Scotland?

That sounds as if you are going to dodge it.

Will you ask now?

You do not always wait to survey members before you express a view.

It would be just the way I have asked it.

That is quite interesting. I understand your point about the model being voluntary versus there being another approach, but you are indicating that, if there is an issue of public confidence, perhaps that function could be separated and put into another body.

Yes.