No. I expected the bigger cities like Goldenrod or Celadon to have them, but I didn't see any places for higher education. [The only schools he know of are the Pokemon academies for trainers.] So I wonder how people earn their qualifications. Just work at it and prove it to the appropriate people?

[For anything else, he can assume either apprenticeships or moving up the ranks via hard work.

Or bribery, that too.]