For the basic level, the requirement was a 10th-grade high school certificate for a pre-service training of 30 months.
Education was classified based on a question with the following nine categorical response options: 0, no schooling, 1, grades 1 8, 2, grades 9 11, 3, completed high school/general equivalency diploma, 4, some college but no degree, 5, technical school certificate, 6, associate degree, 7, bachelor's degree, 8, graduate or professional school.
* p < .05; ** p < .01 All variables are on an interval or ordinal scale, ranging from low to high scores e.g. low mean sitting time to high mean sitting time); low job grade (other/Administrative) to high job grade (senior civil servant); low education (school certificate) to high education (higher degree).
Their educational level ranged from completion of secondary school certificate to higher secondary school certificate (Grades 8-13).
Those with ordinary national diploma (OND), national certificate of education (NCE), technical education, grade II teachers' certificate, junior and senior secondary school certificate, primary school certificate and those with no formal education were classified as lower social class [ 17].
The vocational preparatory year (BVJ) is geared towards those who have graduated from secondary school or a special education programme after completing grade 8 or 9 without having received an appropriate school certificate.
The pass rate at Brac's schools speaks for itself – last year, 99.97% of its students gained the primary school certificate (PSC), with 80.29% of students achieving an A grade.
I completed my school certificate in Blantyre".
I failed my school certificate.
A birth certificate or school certificate can prove this.
