Entry requirements: There are no formal academic requirements, although many employers will require you to possess a degree or equivalent qualification.
Many universities require A-level equivalent qualifications.
The Department for Education also stripped out a range of vocational qualifications and reduced the weighting of "equivalent" qualifications.
Black workers with degrees earn 23% less on average than white workers with equivalent qualifications.
Black workers with degrees earned 23% less on average than white workers with equivalent qualifications.
As this happened, the number of "equivalent" qualifications mushroomed.
a progression route through the sector up to degree level equivalent qualifications.
And that means it includes what are known as "equivalent qualifications" in the results.
"Importantly, in Wales, fewer children undertake equivalent qualifications: B-Tecs, NVQs.
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.
Known as equivalent qualifications, some of these count for as much as four or even six GCSEs.
