"They bring back skills, but in a tricky sense," said Rafal Antczak, a professor of economics at Warsaw University.
Sierra Leonean health workers based in the UK formed an organisation that organises annual visits – at their own expense – back home; bringing back skills, knowledge and equipment for the schools and hospitals where they trained or had their initial deployments.
Today's returning vets--many bringing back skills that are vastly higher tech than Baskin's--appear to have good opportunities to do likewise.
Fig 1 Back Skills Training is a 'complex' intervention, comprising a number of components that may act both independently and inter-dependently [ 30].
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2474/15/17/prepub We thank all participants and general practices who participated in the Back Skills training trial.
The Back Skills Training Trial (BeST) has been designed to capture and evaluate these effects using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
The Back Skills Training (BeST) Trial was a multicentre randomised controlled trial and the design, intervention, and main analyses have been reported in detail elsewhere [ 2, 3, 10, 11].
Last season, Flacco and Ryan rode versions of that same combination — ball control, offensive-line strength, running-back skill or depth, elite defense — right into the playoffs.
But don't be surprised if an upturn brings back skill shortages.
"But the point we really want to make is that if European governments continue to cut back on education, they are also cutting back on skills.
"Low welfare, low tax" is not a destination as Osborne cuts back on skills, and "high pay" is an illusion.
