Sentence examples for lowering qualifications from inspiring English sources

By lowering qualifications for vice president for his own selfish reasons, and giving us a woman who would set back women by her policies, and embarrass us by being obviously out of her depth, McCain has practiced a classic form of sexism.

Overall, South European economical immigrants belong twice more often to the "working poor" category than Swiss workers, at least partly due to lower qualification and education levels.

In the complete case, a smaller proportion of parents was educated to lower qualification levels compared with the multiply imputed data sets and also compared with the observed data (Table 1).

There is something very easy and rather lazy about denouncing universities for their elitism, and suggesting (as Alan Milburn does in a report to be released tomorrow) that a lack of basic education can be made up for, by lowering entry qualifications for working class children.

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.

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

Graduates are still far less likely to be out of work but the rate of unemployment for degree holders has risen faster than it has for young people with lower qualifications.