The strength of the TDR funded programme has allowed us to compete for other programme development funding which has increased the areas of specialisation (fields of study) that we offer (epidemiology and biostatistics, population based field epidemiology, infectious disease epidemiology) and extended our training to PhD level [ 11].
The sector recognises the need to compete for savers and programmes of modernisation and rationalisation should help it offer better deals.
Economic theory strongly suggests that whenever programmes compete for teachers in largely private systems, better teachers will be drawn to sectors with better compensation and working conditions.
The same holds true for the supply side: different health programmes compete for finite HR, posing a strain on local health systems.
The two programmes will compete for best sitcom against Sky1's Hunderby and the BBC's Rev, but the cast of John Morton's mockumentary about the buildup to the London 2012 Olympics fare better than The Thick of It's actors.
Three boxers from outside the full-time programme will also compete for England - Bury's Sarah Dunne (featherweight), Manchester's Stacey Copeland (welterweight) and Lowestoft's Carly Ogogo (light-heavyweight).
John McVay said that director general Tony Hall's plan to allow independent producers to compete for all of the corporation's TV programme budget would "liberate" the BBC.
Further, many countries in the region have alarmingly high levels of HIV in the general population, and thus sex work programmes, quite rightly, compete for resources and attention with general population initiatives.
McIlroy, in particular, has found himself drawn into the controversy as to which nation he should compete for when golf returns to the Olympic programme at Rio de Janeiro for the first time since 1924.
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