Girls have been receiving better school grades than boys for more than 60 years, and for more than 20 years, they have constituted the higher proportion of applicants with qualifications for higher education (Helbig 2013).
As this swath of the population retires, the proportion of those with no qualification falls.
Staff/patient ratio, age and sex of staff, experience of staff, proportion of unqualified staff, level of qualifications, de-escalation training, staff turnover, attitudes of staff and administrators [ 12, 13, 16, 27- 39].
It has a significant skills shortage; low rates of business startups; among the highest youth unemployment in the UK; the lowest proportion of residents with NVQ4 qualifications, or above; and its young people often have travel to Leeds and Sheffield to find work.
In UKIP-voting Clacton, the proportion of constituents with no qualifications was 16 percentage points higher than the national average.
A much lower proportion of those without Australian qualifications considered communication capabilities to be important.
A representative consumer sample was achieved with regard to gender and location in accordance with ABS data, however, there was a greater proportion of participants with tertiary qualifications, and as would be expected, a higher proportion of older consumers.
From a methodological perspective, the study points to the usefulness of indicators such as the number of researchers and their qualifications, proportion of PhDs and the range of disciplines.
The large proportion of participants without educational qualifications may be due to the location of the General Practices through which they were recruited, which were in more deprived areas of the country.
The proportion of people with higher qualifications increased across the country at a similar rate (6 percentage points), so the gap between the Spearhead and all local authorities remained constant.
