The full rigour of externally-marked exams would be reserved for the advanced level - which would become the dominant, end-of-school academic qualification.
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Eighty percent of the advanced-level respondents are seeing faster time to market for applications, versus 25 percent of the beginners.
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The first is an entry-level initiative designed for illiterate individuals, and the second, an advanced level, targets workers who already have some basic literacy and numeracy skills.
The revised AS-level, replacing the Advanced Supplementary exam, was one of the main recommendations arising from Lord Dearing's review of qualifications for 16 to 19 year olds.
The confrontation of ideas at these workshops has definitively advanced the discipline to a level that archaeoseismological evidence is now considered as a complementary source of earthquake data in the whole range of approaches in earthquake science.
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Rounding out the advanced feature set is an unmatched level of fan controls offered within the UEFI or in Windows via the most advanced and robust fan controls of any motherboard via Fan Xpert 2.
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"If you decide not to choose some of the facilitating subjects at advanced level, many degrees at competitive universities will not be open to you, " it adds.
Following that, it now plans a pilot to test the inclusion of Level 3 qualifications - as advanced studies are known - in the post-16 tables "on a basis of equivalence to A-level".
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The UGCCS two main radio courses are Broadcast Reporting and Writing at the basic level for Diploma students, and Advanced Broadcast Production for students in their final year of the degree programme.
The intention is that students should take four or even five subjects at AS-level (Advanced Subsidiary) in the first year, specialising in the second.
Still, we preferred to use the more familiar manual or aperture-priority shooting modes, which offers the highest level of control for advanced shooters.
The more advanced the market, the more sophisticated (and lethal) the level of risk.
The rather low download speed of the iPhone 4S is widely regarded as the reason why the most advanced Android phones used to have roughly double the mobile data consumption level of the iPhone 4S during 1H12.
The abundance of features were seen as appealing to more advanced users without complicating the phone for more entry-level users.
As for trading virtual attributes, character possessions in the multiplayer game Everquest (such as a sword that an advanced player had won in a difficult level of the game) already trade on Ebay.
The WarpDrive card builds upon LSI enterprise-level experience in the design, manufacture and support of advanced server and storage solutions.
The yen reached a level it has not hit since 1995 when it advanced 0.83% against the dollar Wednesday.
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The advanced GDP price index is at its lowest level since the second quarter of 1998.
"Sadly many good students are simply not getting the right advice and guidance on which advanced-level subjects will qualify them for their chosen course, " said Dr Piatt.
Plus, if BPA was below the level of detection using the most advanced technology for determining the presence of such chemicals, all those animal studies claiming adverse effects based on much, much higher exposures were simply irrelevant to human health.
Nevada's Yucca Mountain is the "furthest along and most advanced" high-level nuclear waste repository, Cheney said.
Advanced university degree, at least at the Masters level, in subjects linked directly with cultural or natural heritage conservation and management.
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"We've taken security to the hardware level and built it in from the ground up, " said Chris Satchell from the Xbox Advanced Technology Group.
Understanding the fundamentals of programming at even the most basic level could be an important foundation for advanced learning.
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The A-level course will still be two years long but the first year will be called the AS or Advanced Subsidiary.
Instead, it just tries to be thinner, lighter or a little more advanced than its competitors in the high-end and mid-level price bands.
Advanced University degree (preferably at Doctorate level) in the field of hydrology, water resources engine eering or in closely related water or environmental sciences.
Advanced university degree (preferably at doctoral level or equivalent) in the field of marine sciences, oceanography or meteorology.
This type of grid-level storage is a priority for the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, or ARPA-E, program.
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