Hi All,

Can someone please help me here?

Hubby and I need to prove we finished primary and secondary school many many years ago - how do we prove this? Under the British Education system certificates have never been issued according to my daughter`s head teacher?

Thanks in advance for your replies

Sue

If you did CSE or GCE exams, the certificates should do. If you went to university, did not think previous education proof mattered. If I recall correctly I think all I did was list the schools. My professional certificates& licenses were testament to prior education.

Hi Sue - have you got copies of your GCE/CSE certificates? I used those with my application. My mother had kept copies of them plus all my school reports in one of her desk drawers - never had the heart to throw them out bless her heart

I also attached a cover letter saying that we didn't have completion certificates when we finished school but that the certificates proved that we had indeed completed secondary education.

I didn't enclose any of my primary school reports as I didn't think comments like "will never amount to much" and "prefers talking to any real work" would be particularly helpful

Good luck! J

The schools have a main records office, Scotland, England and Wales and one in Northern Ireland. Google it. It does cost, a friend did it a couple of years but cant remember what it cost. I am planning on doing it as well shortly but have other things on at the moment.
Happy hunting!

I have some CSE/NVQ slips but no certificates! Hubby says he didn`t do any CSE exams - he couln`t wait to leave!!! So I just don`t know how to prove his education other than going back to the schools and local education department and asking them to compose a letter saying he attending during XX years? His secondary school is now a college and as for his primary school that has been demolished.....

I went on one of those YTS scheme`s for the local authority and found employment towards the end of the 2 year scheme, but again NO certificate to say I did it. Hubby is more or less the same, just that at the time his course was scrapped by local authority - lack of funding so he tells me?

Is there any way or anyone who I can contact to search his education and what if any exams he took?

Sue x

thanks Dinger - your a wonderful source of info!

Sue x

Yes, I had a few of those, right through to leaving secondary school. 'Easily distracted' ' a dreamer' and the one I loved most was 'he has his head in the clouds', which I thought was great as all I ever wanted to do was fly, so that worked for me. Don't think it was meant quite like that though. Not sure who was most glad I left, them or me.

On one flight, one of my passengers was the teacher who wrote that comment. I had kept a copy of it in my log book, it gave him a laugh when I showed him.

Well have been to hubbies primary and secondary schools and neither of them have any records.... I`ve tried the local education admissions dept - they have nothing, contacted the the local archives dept and guess what - they say, they have nothing!!!!! Does my hubby exist I ask myself?? - errh?.....let me think.....errh?, oh yes he does, I have 2 children by him!!

I am at a total loss, there must be a record of his admittance to both schools somewhere?? Now if he had been on a truancy record I`m sure they would of found his details then?

Off to the archives department in person tomorrow to try again.

Anyone else have any suggestions??????

Sue

Sorry Sue, but must admit i have just used your hubby as an example to my 14 year son. If you leave school without an exam then later on in life it will 'bite you in the butt'.

I have just told him that i don't care and no one cares if he can read and write and is great in Math, if you do not have an exam and a peice of paper to prove it, then it means nothing if you can do it.

Check with hubby again, I know even the worst kids in my school did some exams ( I was the one level above them) did he do metal work, wood work, techincal drawing.?

What does he do now? If he has absolutley no qualifications in anything will he be able to work over here? Most places over in canada want the equavlent of a high school diploma.

That's what struck me too ..... what sort of visa are you planning on getting?

Without Grade 12 education and a grad certificate employment opportunities are less than limited.

Hubby is a HGV 1 Trucker with 25 yrs plus under his belt. He trained on a Youth Opportunities Programme (YOP) back in the day as a HGV mechanic and has 2 certificates to prove this. Unfortunately lack of youths on the programme and limited funding the course was scrapped by the local college!! However he took no CSE exams on leaving secondary school.....

I have been looking at the possibility of the CIS route, just trying to see if we can prove our education. I am ok, have the necessary certs etc. Just wondering who would be best as main applicant me or him? I have been out of the work force since the birth of my second child 8 yrs ago so I don`t know if this would hinder me being the main applicant?

Have contacted two separate RDA`s via email, but I have heard nothing from either of them?

Sue