Indeed. Unfortunately for the educators and for the authorities who will have to decide if these qualifications are genuine, there is no way to ensure that the person who is submitting assignments is the one who is doing the work.

How would you feel if you knew that someone who could potentially cause serious injury including death, stroke, fracture, paralysis, muscle and nerve damage, joint damage, crippling injury etc had no clinical experience supervised by a qualified physio?

I think if physio was simple, you could do distance education BUT it is not.

howardwhite, you seem to be promoting a website for online education so i would suggest you have some bias in your comments.

The fact remains that physio is a hands on profession in which you need hands-on experience and guidance to learn.

The classic example is core-stability. How many people have heard of the "core" and "transversus adominis"? yet most physios i know who are good physios still get it wrong when assessed on real-time U/S. We know theoretically what to do but when it comes to doing it - and we have lots of knowledge about how - the bottom line is that you need someone who knows how to show you and how to achieve the contraction.