To be slightly outraged that they don't include Scottish qualifications on the census form?

[hockeyforjockeys]

OK I'm quite sad and love a good form to fill (especially if it has lots of lovely tick boxes), so I was quite excited to receive my census form today. But when I looked at the qualifications section there was no mention of Scottish qualifications (e.g. Standard Grades and Highers) in the list of possible options, when they explicity say UK qualifications at the top of the form. Even though I live in England I have Scottish qualifications, and find it enough of a bloody nightmare at the lack of recognition of them (particularly when I was applying for uni), but I would of thought a national body like the National Statistics Office might have an idea that things are a bit different up there? Is it a different form in Scotland, otherwise I can imagine a united chorus of 5 million of 'bloddy English'.

I would imagine it would be a different form for Scotland, otherwise that would be a glaring oversight! Is there a space for "other" even?

Might be a different form?, I dont have mine yet.

I don't know, I have Scottish qualifications, O grades and highers. . However I haven't received my forms yet so can't even look to see

it says foreign though lol

I was about to throw mine away when I saw that I had to do it. Has nothing changed since Christ was born? Death and taxes. 'Course not.

Anyway, there is a blank box which says "this is deliberately blank".

Perhaps that's for Scottish stuff which English people don't and should never know about? Sort of "words on a form" which is invisible to most.

That makes me sad too... I am also scot living in england.

What would they do I wonder if all the Scots living in the UK wrote in big letters across the form - I have Scottish qualifications?
I might leave ours blank as DH and I both have o grades and highers

Not got mine yet, so will let you know when I do if our forms have the Scottish qualifications on them.

Do they have GCSEs and O levels and A levels and HNDs and everything?

Or do they just talk about levels? On the forms we get at work they have (NVQ? can't remember) level 1-6 or something and you are supposed to "translate" the qualification across but no-one knows WTF it all means

Oh yes, full range of English qualifications, including many I've never heard of. It does tell you to tick the equivalent if it's not listed, but I would think that a Scottish qualifictaion would be valid enough to include on teh actual list!

I've just had a look online in case there were more options, but I'm guessing those of us with O/Standard grades/Highers need to tick the English equivalent as per the instructions. Very annoying though.

That's appalling then jockeys.

I just looked at the census website and they have a english version and a welsh version

Welsh one I think has a Q17 about speaking/reading Welsh, the English version has "this question is deliberately left blank" at Q17.

That's really bad! Can anyone remember if it was the same last time?

havent had form yet

The Scottish one has proper qualifications on it, and the current English ones, but not O levels tough they do finish each section with "or equivalent"

www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/en/howto/questionshelp/q/i23.html

DP has just pointed out the word England on the front, so I assume there is a different Scottish one. Still bloody outrageous that they use the word UK when they mean England.

And why does the Scottish one include English qualifications, but not vice versa?

OP I think you are first in country to get a form lol

I'm in Scotland and haven't had mine yet but I'll be finding someone to phone and complain to if they don't have Scottish Qual.'s in Scotland!

There are a couple of other threads about it so it seems they have started arriving, just not in Scotland. Must be that huge distance they need to cover to get there

I was quite annoyed about this too. I'm amazed that uk bureaucrats never seem to learn that uk =/= England.