Sentence examples for qualification that counts from inspiring English sources
Those five passes, for example, can now include one all-encompassing technology qualification that counts as four grades in individual subjects.
Mr Gove, speaking on Friday, had said: "There are one or two points that are being made about perhaps one or two qualifications that might count within the five pillars and I will look at that.
To make the cut, the comics had to count stand-up as their primary income, a qualification that left funnymen like Jerry Seinfeld, Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno off this year's list.
(Forget the fact that in some countries sporting prowess might seem to be the perfect ticket to earn a young person a job, and money rarely the main motivator to sporting prowess. In Germany it's official qualifications that count).
Since 2001 ESOL has grabbed more than half of the "Skills for Life" budget, squeezing the literacy and numeracy courses, aimed mainly at British-born adults, which produce more qualifications that count towards official targets.
Brian Lightman, of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said: "It is important that all qualifications that count in performance tables have an equal level of challenge, and we support moves to ensure that this will be the case in future".
That counts for something.
The DfE added that in some independent schools, pupils had continued to be entered for unregulated qualifications that did not count in performance measures, such as IGCSEs, and they had not been moved across to the regulated certificate versions.
