Sentence examples for tertiary qualification from inspiring English sources

Only 5.7% of the domestic workforce have a tertiary qualification.

"There is a difference between a tertiary qualification and an accredited profession," said Burrell.

Both countries have mass higher education systems that, according to the OECD, have provided almost 40% of each nation's population with a tertiary qualification.

Only 17% of Italians between 25 and 34 have a tertiary qualification, compared with an OECD average of 33%.

Higher education also needs beefing up: only 22% of 25- to 34-year-olds in Mexico have a tertiary qualification, against 37% in Chile.

As an increasing proportion of a country's citizens go on to post-school education (see chart 1), so possession of some tertiary qualification becomes the indispensable passport to a decent job.

The submissions come from industries that were once thought secure, where in decades past tertiary qualifications were supposed to mean a "job for life" – schoolteachers, nurses, public servants.

However vocational tertiary qualifications consistently go along with higher competencies than vocational upper secondary ones.

According to government statistics, in 2001 there were 23,371 schoolteachers in Singapore, of which only 13,317, or 57%, hold tertiary qualifications.

Furthermore, this form of academic misconduct has the potential to devalue tertiary qualifications, disadvantage honest, diligent students, and risks enabling unskilled, unqualified contract cheaters using unethically-gained qualifications to secure employment that they are not capable of undertaking.

In 2009 the group of people with tertiary qualifications were mainly employed in the service sector in jobs requiring high qualifications and came from a more homogenous group of countries.