Sigh. No comment.

His lessons have helped some of Britain’s most successful pupils pass their exams, but the headmaster of Westminster School is, apparently, not good enough to teach children in the state sector.
He was informed that because he had not gained “qualified teacher status” by completing a one-year Post-Graduate Certificate in Education, he would not be allowed to register to teach in the state sector.
Carol Adams, the chief executive of the General Teaching Council, said that the rules did not allow qualified teacher status to be given to the headmaster.

Funny if it were not so tragic:

“Mr Jones-Parry wrote to us because he wanted to register with the council as a qualified teacher. However, you can only be given qualified teacher status if you successfully complete one of the training routes,” she said.
“Mr Jones-Parry could teach in a state school as an unqualified teacher. They are allowed to be taken on staff if schools have had no luck appointing a qualified teacher. I am sure they would be delighted to have him on that basis.
“As we explained to him, however, we cannot confer qualified teacher status on him. We are not being bureaucratic, we just don’t have the power to issue it unless it has has been through the process.”
“We did have a scheme where someone with the standing of Mr Jones-Parry could be assessed by a head teacher in a matter of weeks,” she said. “Unfortunately the funding ran out and the scheme was abandoned.”

The “we are not being bureaucratic” should be carved somewhere as a warning to others, an aide memoire to those who are foolish enough to believe in the power or sanity of the State. Perhaps Ms Adams would like it tattooed on her forehead?