National Certificate (Irish: Teastais Náisiúnta) (often abbreviated to NCert or NC) is the name of an educational award in a number of countries, although the actual merit of award is not always the same.
Read more about National Certificate: Ireland, United Kingdom (except Scotland), Scotland
Famous quotes containing the words national and/or certificate:
“Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“God gave the righteous man a certificate entitling him to food and raiment, but the unrighteous man found a facsimile of the same in God’s coffers, and appropriated it, and obtained food and raiment like the former. It is one of the most extensive systems of counterfeiting that the world has seen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)