Adults can take Access Diploma courses, Foundation degrees and other formal qualifications, some with professional accreditation, towards their career.

The school offered its own diploma for those leaving before taking nationally recognised qualifications at 'O' and 'A' levels.

Some graduates go on to take further qualifications, for example in housing or social work, or into postgraduate research.

She then entered education for adults, taking qualifications via the NVQ route.

They will also get the chance to take vocational qualifications linked directly to the needs of local employers.

So for four generations, the Khan family have been taking qualifications in law and medicine a feat very rare among Bengali Muslims.

The number of students taking vocational qualifications at this level is around 15%, further limiting the number of job roles which this announcement actually covers.

Maintained sector schools have many reasons, such as funding, or league table standings, to encourage their students to take additional qualifications.

He took full qualifications as a doctor of medicine and, after local experience, found himself ship's surgeon on a merchant ship, the 'Calcutta'.

She studied law at the University of Hull, after which she planned to take specialist legal qualifications.