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However vocational tertiary qualifications consistently go along with higher competencies than vocational upper secondary ones.
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'.
Finally, the assessment is also language based so that respondents completing it in their native (and thus likely most proficient) language are expected to show higher competencies in literacy measured in this language.
According to this model, the different ISCED categories follow the same order in most countries, meaning that higher level educational qualifications are associated with higher literacy skills, and within ISCED levels, non-vocational education is usually associated with higher competencies than vocational education.
Maehler et al. (2013) report competency by detailed education categories for Germany, finding that on average, individuals with vocational tertiary education achieve lower competency levels than individuals with general upper secondary education, contradicting the general finding of higher competencies at higher education levels found using broad education categories.
This 6-year programme would give us higher competencies".
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The lawyers also said that the Supreme Court had set a higher competency threshold for someone to represent himself than for simply standing trial represented by a lawyer.
A similar pictures exists in the other groups, with 25 30 % either progressing or regressing by one-half of a standard deviation, indicating that developments only occurred in the higher competency region and that the dispersion of the lower-performing groups, though lower, is homogeneous.
Laser-induced pores delivering higher intracellular concentrations would have a higher competency.
Special track graduates scored higher on four out of five competencies, notably procedural skills, but normal track graduates had higher competency on clinical knowledge in major clinical subjects.
This programme aimed to increase the readiness of students to fulfil the needs of society relating to higher competency in patient care.
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