Sentence examples for equivalent education from inspiring English sources

We find considerable differences across countries in the average literacy skills associated with supposedly equivalent education levels, as well as in the strength of association of educational qualifications and skills.

The AoC welcomed the provision of free A-level equivalent education for young people but the association's chief executive, John Brennan, said there was a lack of information on how the commitment would be funded.

Last year one of the most comprehensive studies, by researchers from Stanford University, found that fewer than one-fifth of charter schools nationally offered a better education than comparable local schools, almost half offered an equivalent education and more than a third, 37 percent, were "significantly worse".

We firstly find a high degree of heterogeneity of skills across countries for equivalent education categories.

Secondly, we find skill similarities for equivalent education categories classified at different broad education levels, sometimes even breaking the hierarchical order of 'higher education entails higher competencies'.

Comparable or equivalent education levels are typically defined by the International Standard Classification of Education [ISCED; (UNESCO Institute for Statistics 2006)] used in many cross-national surveys.

There is considerable wage improvement between first- and second-generation black immigrants with college-equivalent education.

Unskilled workers are those with no more than 12 years of education, that is, high school-equivalent education, and skilled workers are those with 13 or more years of education, that is, college-equivalent education.

SES was assessed by educational attainment (university degree or equivalent, higher education but not university degree, A-level, O-level, secondary education, some foreign educational qualifications, or no educational qualifications) and by total net nonpension household wealth (household is defined as a couple with any dependent child) categorized using quintiles.

In the survey, the educational attainment was coded in seven groups: degree or equivalent; higher education below degree level; General Certificate of Education at Advanced level (GCE A) level or equivalent; General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) grades A C or equivalent; GCSE grades D E or equivalent; other qualifications; no qualifications.

Consequently following the recruitment exercise, ninety-one Malaysian adults (18 years and above) with minimum secondary (O-Level equivalent) level education and conversant in the Malay language, were recruited to evaluate the diabetes education package.