Only applicants having the first class qualifications need apply.
At his interview with Ove Arup, Derek took the opportunity of mentioning his evening class qualifications in civil and structural engineering, but Ove interrupted to ask whether he was intelligent, and followed it with an awful question about matrices, which Derek wisely denied any knowledge of.
Coffee drinking is, in fact, a diehard national habit with real estate sold on its proximity to café strips, and baristas, roasters and an increasing number of growers who have world class qualifications.
There should be no racial, gender or class qualification on who gets to advocate for the cause -- because contrary to popular belief, everyone needs feminism for this world to keep evolving.
"This announcement is critically important in ensuring greater parity of esteem between with A-levels and ensuring that diplomas don't become second-class qualifications".
It will divide all secondary students into sheep and goats, and write some off to a second-class education, second-class qualifications and second-class prospects.
Praising the university for its work on foundation degrees, the education secretary insisted they were not second-class qualifications, although the government hopes universities and further education colleges will offer competitively priced courses when top-up fees are introduced in 2006.
This is creating an even greater premium on higher levels of skills and qualifications, making the returns from ideas, capital, and top-class qualifications greater and greater.
This would be a tragedy for all those children consigned to what would effectively be a second-class qualification, and would be a major blow for the country's future social mobility and economic prospects.
Mr Gove is, however, determined to raise exam standards and remove "modules"—mini-exams testing a small part of the curriculum from courses.The new goal is a world-class qualification, modelled on the International GCSE (deemed tougher than the GCSE and undertaken largely by private schools in Britain) and the International Baccalaureate.
††Additional adjustments: sociodemographic social class, income, qualifications, alcohol in pregnancy, father's qualifications; early life course gestation, birth weight, breast feeding; later life course maternal involvement, maternal discipline, schooling (full time, part time).
