Public Education should by its nature, be provided equally to everyone, with all participants provided with the same tools to advance to their own preferred individual level of attainment.
Public education is not meant to be about indoctrination, addressing agendas of politics or creating individual inequality or reinforcing class structure. Nor should it be used as a measure of performance alone.
Educational qualifications don't always reflect an individuals competence or ensure they are able to perform.
Educational qualifications cannot produce an adequate or fair benchmark from which we can provide the broad scope required for accrediting all the members of the technical communication fraternity.
There is already too much diversity in our membership. I can program using two languages, work with numerous software packages, and have excellent communication skills, able to work with all kinds of individuals. I have to analyse, design all kinds of documentation, apply technical knowledge, plan and adjust time, track documentation projects, manage and negotiate people.
How on earth do you measure my skills with someone who has multiple university degrees and no experience working with hand tools?
How do you compare someone who can create technical illustrations with people who only write documentation?
How do you construct an educational qualification that embraces all of the above? I contend that you cannot. If you did, could you provide that sort of course in multiple locations, concurrently?
How can you justify an educational qualification that does not provide adequate redress to the diversity of skills I have?