This administrative confidence appeals to aspirational, knowledge-economy Scots in a particularly acute way.
I interviewed him for a BBC radio show based on a column I wrote for The Times about how we have devolved from Marilyn's aspirational attitude toward knowledge, in which she wanted to collect great books and meet authors and intellectuals — even marrying one — to Sarah Palin's anti-elitist scorn about reading and intellectuals.
Often, this group is considered in relation to aspirational benefits that may accrue from accumulated generalisable knowledge.
The Rob-and-Laura fantasy had such an aspirational quality that it may have contained a secret knowledge — or dread — that in time they could have outgrown each other.
Pupils are encouraged to be competitive, aspirational and independent in thought, while offering respect to the knowledge and experience of their teachers.
Ten features were considered "aspirational" because of a lack of agreed standards and/or suitable knowledge bases.
To the best of anyone's knowledge, No More does absolutely nothing, apart from vaguely aspirational things about "awareness", which is corporate-speak for "results- and effort-free tax deduction".
While not everyone agrees, many Vinteuil sleuths believe Proust based the piece on Camille Saint-Saëns's Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Minor, and though my knowledge of classical music could at best be described as aspirational, I decided — perhaps based more on optimism than reason — to join the believers.
Childhood and adolescence are key suicide prevention window periods, yet knowledge of suicide prevention pathways through universal interventions is limited (Aspirational Goal 11).
Increasing our knowledge of effective follow-up care has been identified as an Aspirational Goal by The National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention's Research Prioritization Task Force.
Knowledge about these attributes is scarce since the contemporary scholarship often contains aspirational proposals for change and little detail on how planning is undertaken in practice.
