This document is retained here as a record of some of the background to the Certification Programme. Although the rationale and aims of the programme described here remain the same, it is now (Nov 2005) inaccurate in some of the details of implementation especially with regard to the information about points.

Given all the very good reasons for implementing some sort of Director Certification Scheme, the Steering Group had to come up with a concept that would address these issues:-

• There is no way that Directors College can teach everything a director needs to know and it shouldn't try to.
• Knowledge acquired at other venues such as Harmony College, Workshops, external schools, on the job training etc. should be recognised and rewarded.
• BABS must rationalise its programs so that resources are not wasted in repetition.
• We should be making a better job of persuading directors of the absolute requirement for certain basic skills ...
• ... but we should also recognise and reward variety and breadth of knowledge.
• It should, at least, be possible to envisage the same sort of scheme being used to qualify judges, coaches etc. preferably using the same basic resources.

It is apparent that some directors are not convinced of the need for basic hand skills or even musical knowledge. The scheme, therefore, must address this by insisting on a minimum level of skill in certain, compulsory areas, whilst recognising skills in other, supporting areas.

Therefore, we developed a concept model that, with tongue in cheek, we called the 'But Clancy doesn't do that' model. It is basically very simple and modular.

For the sake of simplicity, It assumes :-

1. That we can categorise all the necessary skills and knowledge into a few skill sets like Directing Skills, Music, Singing, Presentation.
2. That, for each of the skill sets, we can define 'expertises' such as Theory, Practice etc.
3. That, any individual will have a certain level of ability in every one of these expertises and that must be recognised and rewarded.
4. That we can describe this level of ability with a 'points' system.

All Knowledge Music Singing Presentation Directing Skills Leadership & Management Some other skill area		Theory Practice Teaching skills Analytical skills
		Total the points achieved in each area