But he continued: "It is a fact that anybody in this room could in a matter of a few weeks acquire the qualifications to supervise an Underground train.
"Institutions should look to the real world of work and develop closer collaboration with companies to identify where skills are in demand, then help students to acquire the qualifications needed to become the workforce of the future".
Institute laws and regulations specifying how these people are selected: not on the basis of reputation alone, since that will give people an incentive to curry favor with their associates and subordinates and disregard the ruler; not on the basis of cliques, since that will motivate people only to establish connections rather than acquire the qualifications to perform in office.
After identifying potentially compatible careers, attention turns to learning about and acquiring the qualifications needed to become a plausible job candidate which for jobs outside academe generally do not include a postdoc but may include knowledge and experience gained through courses, volunteering, internships, or other means.
In terms of professional development, 78% of the principals serving in voucher kindergartens had obtained B.Ed. (ECE) and 98% had completed the certification course, while 86% of the in-service teachers had acquired the C ECE) or equivalent qualification (Figure 2).
On the other hand, characteristics of school failure include consistent low achievement or failure to attain the minimum standards of performance, leaving school early or not acquiring the necessary qualifications for the labor market, and the long-term consequences of lacking the skills for successful integration into the labor market (OECD, 1998).
The training costs per student might be substantial, especially for physicians and specialists, who must attend medical school for several years to acquire the proper qualifications.
Besides, lots of professional interpreters did not just acquire the recommended minimum qualification under the previous system, which is a Diploma in Public Service Interpreting and 400 hours of experience.
More specifically, we use a particular feature of the Swiss vocational education and training (VET) system to study career change that teachers of job-related subjects cannot choose teaching as their first career but can only become teachers after (a) acquiring the highest education qualification in their job category and (b) accumulating a certain number of years of job experience.
Acquiring the appropriate official qualifications before popping the question is part of a plan for prenuptial training courses approved by the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with the aim of reversing declining Iranian marriage rates and rising divorce statistics.
