PPL instructors please !
For years in the UK you could instruct with a PPL and an instructor rating, when the Europeans demanded that instructors have a CPL we were all told that the money would increase to match the "new" status.
The fact of the matter is that we are now short of instructors and I can think of at least two guy in my club who would make great instructors.
However with years of safe private flying and aged 50+ they are not going to get a CPL just to get paid a few pounds an hour, but they would do an instructor rating and do a much better job than a spotty youth CPL who spends all his time trying to get a jet job.
It's high time that AOPA and the PFA pushed this point at EASA (if they are not already doing so)