Unicef suggests this "may be the result of an emphasis on academic qualifications combined with a diverse system of vocational qualifications".
On the other hand, universities, in the U.K. at least, will offer to verify academic qualifications, often with the graduate's permission, as it's fairly routine for employers to request these.
It weighs conventional academic qualifications together with extracurriculars, special talents, socioeconomic background, and personal essays.
Particularly during his final term of office he became increasingly aware that the Fire Service needed people with higher academic qualifications to deal with the complex industrial and commercial risks which were becoming increasingly common.
That interpretation is supported by the fact that admissions tutors at the most prestigious institutions tend to ignore the tariff, admitting students with academic qualifications in preference to those with vocational ones that are supposed to be equally valuable.
The final adjusted model suggests that increasing income does not have a great impact on lowering obesity levels, but that higher academic qualifications are associated with lower obesity levels [Odds of obesity: 0.63 (95%CI: 0.52-0.77) if primary carer leaves school after age 16 compared at age 16].
In addition to applicants with strong academic qualifications, it looks for those with little or no ability to pay for college, and then each year gives 400 of them a free education for four years.
"You might have someone who's the head of a children's home, brimming with experience, compared with an 18-year-old brimming with academic qualifications.
Perhaps we will be more intrusive with important issues such as lying about academic qualifications, and more forgiving with lighter matters such as a few mediocre grades.
Even candidates with excellent academic qualifications in math often have difficulty with basic questions.
