The phrase "a competence gap" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a deficiency in skills or knowledge in a particular area, often in a professional or educational context.
Example: "The recent assessment revealed a significant competence gap among the employees in data analysis skills."
Alternatives: "a skills gap" or "a knowledge gap".
However, they also cited evidence for a negative effect with the potential of elite sports deterring individual participation because of a perceived competence gap.
This is not intended as a comparison of extremes, but rather aims to document the extent of the competence gap that emerges as a result of growing up in less favorable conditions.
This happens in spite of women taking part more than men in vocational training and so increasing what might be called the competence gap.
The expected competence gap with regard to gender was not observed, maybe because the majority of the boys attended HAK, which has a slightly more intensive accounting curriculum than the girl-dominated HLW; this more intensive curriculum might compensate for the gap.
This competence gap contributes to maintaining patient dependency [ 25].
Attention should be focused on the ways in which medical training and postgraduate education can fill the competence gap, to ensure that this field becomes evidence-based rather than merely experience-based.
With these challenges in mind, this paper presents a study conducted in the software industry to test competence gaps among software practitioners, comparing the 360-degree feedback results and self-evaluations with that of standard competence levels.
For these reasons, while discrimination against the first generation of immigrants may be driven by reasons related to real differences in productivity (e.g., either linguistic or competence gaps, related to school or university education), the same cannot be said for the second generation (indeed this last category is Italian mother tongue, always living and educated in the country).
In-service training and mentoring to fill competence gaps of new graduates is also essential.
