Ms. Mazur, the law professor, said: "The services made the decision, in an era of downsizing, not to adapt their course content or increase the qualifications of instructors in an effort to meet university requirements," and so they left.
Besides, non-tangible assets such as education attainment that increases the qualification of a person might be important in determining the reservation wage.
Raise teaching quality by increasing the qualifications levels required of TVET teachers and making pedagogical training obligatory.
"Simply increasing the qualification level of individuals going into a job does not typically result in the skill required to do the job being enhanced – in many cases that skills premium, if it exists at all, is simply wasted.
Anand Shukla, chief executive of the Daycare Trust, told the Today programme: "Any initiatives to increase the qualifications and pay of staff, who are very low paid, are all to be welcomed.
Amongst the government policies influenced by EPPSE was the government's efforts to increase the qualification levels of ECEC staff (e.g., children's workforce strategy, 2005; early years Professional qualification, 2006) as EPPSE had shown that quality of provision was related to staff qualifications (Sylva et al. 1999, 2004).
The change in image is helped by the trend in the past 10 years to increase the academic qualifications of teachers and the raising of the teacher training from the Certificate level to Diploma level.
These initiatives are expected to contribute to reducing the high turnover rates and increasing the educational qualifications and tenure of EC teachers.
Nina Biehal, professor of social work at the University of York, says: "The key element of these reforms is increasing the level of qualifications among staff in children's homes more generally, not just the new training on child sexual exploitation".
Related: Stop treating adoption as the only option for children in care Nina Biehal, professor of social work at the University of York, says: "The key element of these reforms is increasing the level of qualifications among staff in children's homes more generally, not just the new training on child sexual exploitation".
