The hypotheses, which indicate a difference in the physical-technical competencies caused by formal entrance requirements for tertiary education, were confirmed, where the differences only exist between students with general entry qualification on the one hand and subject-specific entrance qualification and university of applied sciences entry qualification on the other hand.
"The figures suggest that there is a diminishing number of institutions which require the highest qualification levels, and that there is some convergence in relation to entry qualifications to full-time undergraduate courses," the report states.
Demographic details obtained included age, sex, and ethnicity, year of entry, mode of entry, qualifications and the level of existing debts.
The course at King's comes out particularly well in terms of the value-added measure, which gauges a department's ability to turn students with a range of entry qualifications at the start of a course into university leavers with upper second or first-class degrees.
The training of substitute cadres varies between countries in terms of entry qualifications, training duration and content of training.
The research team at the University of Warwick said: "Patterns of subject choices remain stubbornly gendered even though female participation in higher education has grown more rapidly than for males and, on average, women's entry qualifications surpass those of men.
The proper way to assess the effect of entry qualifications is to assess the partial correlation of mean postgraduate attainment with minutes of assessment, after taking entry qualifications into account.
New qualifications were developed to cope with changing aspirations and economics, with the Leaving Certificate being replaced by the Scottish Certificate of Education Ordinary Grade ('O-Grade') and Higher Grade ('Higher') qualifications in 1962, which became the basic entry qualification for university study.
The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between entry qualifications and the performance of architecture students in Nigerian Polytechnics with a view to determining the relevance of current admission policy to architectural education in Nigeria.
When your friends and all the other 16- to 19-year-olds in the land trying for university are going down the long-established high road of nationally devised entry qualifications, it is, even five years in, a bit of a brave leap to take this local path.
