Sentence examples for of equivalent qualifications from inspiring English sources

The Department for Education also stripped out a range of vocational qualifications and reduced the weighting of "equivalent" qualifications.

Plans to slash the numbers of "equivalent" qualifications were first announced by ministers in 2011 following Professor Alison Wolf's review of vocational education.

And in some cases, if an interviewer is looking for an apparently rational reason to discriminate between you and another person of equivalent qualifications, it may unfairly count against you.

As this happened, the number of "equivalent" qualifications mushroomed.

The number of equivalent qualifications taken in schools has exploded in recent years from 15,000 in 2004 to 575,000 in 2010.

Professor Alison Wolf, who conducted a review of vocational qualifications for the government, suggested the high points value of equivalent qualifications gave schools "perverse incentives" to offer them.

Rises in ABB-equivalent students came to the rescue of universities who sought to expand; surprisingly, some 30% of so-called ABB students do not, in fact, have A-levels, but some other kind of equivalent qualification, usually BTECs, and were therefore eligible for exclusion from number quotas.

Appropriate means trained by a British Gymnastics Association coach or other person of equivalent qualification or experience.

They showed that 48% of A* to C passes in academies were made up of non-academic equivalent qualifications.

In the complete absence of A-levels or equivalent qualifications, some universities are even prepared to accept life and work experience as an alternative to formal education.

Academic achievement scholarship (£2,000) for outstanding students from the EU who achieve the EU equivalent qualifications of at least ABB at A level.