Perhaps it might be time to have another look at the requirements for the removal of the 'no-applied IF' restriction for teaching up to IMC level. It is not, after all, a JAR rating...
I will bring it up at a suitable meeting.
There is no regulatory requirement for wannabes to obtain an IMC rating - but they would be well advised to. Having listened to the predicament of an unrated CPL student stuck above 8/8 cloud (weather forecast had been grossly optimistic) who managed to be talked down safely by ATC, I met him and asked him why he hadn't thought about getting an IMC rating for just such an emergency situation. He told me that he'd already decided that's what he was going to do as soon as he got back to his FTO!
Plus, with an IMC Rating, hours builders can burn their holes in the sky above 8/8 cloud without worry!