For students, the main attraction of the subject is getting a qualification with hard-currency clout.
But in the early 1990s friends convinced him to get a qualification in computers.
British law does not make tax status a qualification for sitting in the Lords.
"In the past, most staff had a qualification recognised by all social services departments in Wales, " she said.
Our numbers tripled in 2008, causing us to depart from open registration and move towards a qualification system.
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After the convent, Aisling acquired a qualification that led to a post in the general office of educational publishers.
In places such as Wimbledon and Winchester, only about one in 40 of working-age adults does not have a qualification.
There are no entry requirements, the courses will not result in a qualification and completion does not count towards future university entrance.
But, you know, we've moved away from the irrelevancy of one's religion as a qualification for office to an era of faith-based politics.
Ill-feeling between Egypt and Algeria rose in the aftermath of the Algerian football team's victory in a qualification match for next year's World Cup.
While the government plans to award a certificate to pupils achieving this combination of GCSEs, it is not a qualification in its own right.
Under Mr Bush, working for Goldman Sachs, the greatest of Wall Street's then-great investment banks, seemed in itself to be a qualification for high office.
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The country's best-educated population, by this measure, is Brent North, in the Wembley area of north-west London, where more than 98% of adults have a qualification.
The LGA said this was partly caused by colleges being paid for every student who receives a qualification, regardless of the local need for those skills.
The main complication with AS levels is that they only become a qualification (and publishable as such) if and when a candidate accepts an AS Certificate, ie.
The 40-year-old, who has never been a club manager, led his country to the quarter-finals of Euro 2008 after topping a qualification group, which included England and Russia.
The lowest-placed Welsh region in the Magners League must contest next season's 24th and final Heineken place with an Italian side in a qualification play-off game on 29 May.
That English Baccalaureate is not a qualification in its own right but rather a measure of achievement and many found the similarity between that and planned new EBC exam confusing.
Reducing resit opportunities would disadvantage pupils and the government seemed determined "to reduce the A-level to an elite university entrance exam" rather than a qualification for all young people, she added.
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.
First, junior doctors are now aware that a qualification in plastic surgery is a licence to print money by enabling them to circumvent payment ceilings and other constraints on the public system.
Perhaps a qualification one needs in order to be a lawyer is a determination not to accept the possibility there may be something new to learn from science that could help our work?
In order to advance in rank or earn a specific qualification insignia such as lead the watch team in the reactor plant, a qualification board is organized with a sailors superiors and qualified peers to test his or her knowledge.
However this is not being attributed to an upsurge in interest in religion - as the qualifications authority suggests that it reflects the growing interest in GCSE "short courses", which provide a qualification with less work than a conventional GCSE.
The fear was that the English Baccalaureate certificate with its 'more challenging' tag, with its big bang end of year exam would mean universities and employers outside Wales regarded a qualification gained in Wales, in future, as not quite as shiny as the gold standard EBacc.
The Scottish Government said more than 90% of pupils who left school achieved a maths qualification equivalent to a Standard Grade.
More than a third of physics teachers (around 2, 000 teachers), half of those teaching Spanish (around 3, 400), over half of information and communications technology (ICT) teachers (around 9, 200) and more than two in five religious education teachers (around 6, 500) do not hold a relevant qualification higher than an A-level.
This is not a new qualification in itself, but a way of measuring how many pupils in a school pass GCSEs in a science, language and history or geography, as well as English and maths.
Years ago, you needed a nursing qualification and be fluent in a foreign language in order to work for BA. But now, customer service experience is low and staff only stay for a short period of time.
But he believes a professional licence could still be a useful qualification even if it was not a requirement for all managers.
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