Sentence examples for qualifications means from inspiring English sources

And, second, while the UK and Chinese education systems are not that different, the strong focus in China on study and achieving qualifications means many young people enrol in higher education due to pressure from family or the jobs market rather than their own motivation.

I ask him if he's considered looking for better paid and less dangerous work; he tells me that he applies for countless jobs but that his age, along with an absence of formal qualifications, means he rarely gets an interview.

Do qualifications mean anything?

Do new qualifications mean my existing qualifications are worthless No.

It was incredibly difficult when I first started – I had never been a great public speaker – but throwing myself in without experience or qualifications meant that I developed quickly.

Before the war he had been a volunteer with the St John Ambulance Brigade and his first aid qualifications meant that he was paid an extra 9d (4p) a day in the army.

I have met many people who believe their qualifications mean the world owes them a living.

One big challenge will be to communicate just what the new qualifications mean to parents, the broader public and employers.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, told the BBC's Today programme the removal of IGCSEs and other qualifications mean year-by-year statistics are "not comparable".

Employers and universities outside the United Kingdom often don't know about the degree, so they can be confused about what the qualifications mean, he says.

The relatively small numbers and the resultant grouping of A-level qualifications meant that we could not identify the effect of studying individual subjects, nor the effects of a non-science A-level as a third or as a fourth subject.