Sentence examples for lower qualifications from inspiring English sources

The study ranks countries by comparing the number of people with better educational attainment than their parents against those who achieved lower qualifications.

Some 4% of graduates were unemployed – this figure rose to 5% for people with A-level or equivalents, and 8% for people with lower qualifications.

Those opposed to Offa say it gives schools an excuse to underperform by encouraging universities to admit people with lower qualifications.

The ruling came after four white applicants to the University of Texas law school had been passed over in favour of non-white applicants with lower qualifications.

The study found that "for children whose parents have no or lower qualifications... poor early communication skills will likely persist through the pre-school period with little or no relative improvement".

Of the group, 13 of them allege that at some point they found out they were being paid less than men who not only had the same experience as them, but sometimes with lower qualifications.

For those with a lower qualification or no qualification at all, the average number of businesses started was 3.5.

It is the result of a decision by ministers in 2007 to refuse funding for anyone who already has a qualification of equal status, referred to as ELQ (equivalent and lower qualification) students.

The workforce in children's residential care has a far lower qualification threshold than that required for social workers, and yet they are working with children and young people with traumatic histories.

Badly affected Some institutions have also been badly affected by the government's ELQ rule – the decision to stop funding students studying for an equivalent or lower qualification than one they have already.

However, Universities Minister David Willetts, said that the decision to allow universities to recruit unlimited numbers of students with ABB grade passes need not restrict the chances of those with a lower qualification.