Sentence examples for rigorous qualifications from inspiring English sources

But she stands by her remarks about the importance of rigorous qualifications for working class pupils.

"Some will argue that more rigorous qualifications … will inevitably lead to more students failing.

Now some will argue that more rigorous qualifications in these subjects will inevitably lead to more students failing.

"There are valuable and rigorous qualifications not in the EBacc, like RE, which pupils should be free to take if they want," he said.

Mr. Vanderhoek, who is keen on reinvention (before creating Manhattan GMAT in 2000, he taught at I.S. 90 for three years, subsisting on falafel and moonlighting as a tutor based at his local Starbucks), has updated the 3Rs to fit his teachercentric credo: Rigorous Qualifications, Redefined Expectations, and Revolutionary Compensation.

"The report shows positive early signs that schools and colleges are entering young people for more rigorous qualifications.

In September 2012, Gove said he wanted to replace what he saw as discredited, grade-inflated GCSEs with a more rigorous qualification to be assessed by exams only rather than coursework or modular elements.

Does [Gove] agree with me that that an emphasis on rigorous qualification and an emphasis on attaining core academic subjects is not, as is sometimes argued, contrary to the interests of working class children, and black minority ethnic children.

On the contrary, precisely if you are the first in your family to stay on past school leaving age, precisely if your family doesn't have social capital, precisely if you don't ahve parents to put in a word for you in a difficult job market, you need the assurance of rigorous qualification and, if at all possible, core academic qualifications.

They were seen as the more rigorous qualification of the two.

The Commonwealth Games Association of Jersey says they've all had to meet rigorous qualification standards to compete at the youth games.