And for many of these individuals, the journey may be significantly shorter than expected; many institutions now accept previously earned credits, will translate workplace competency into transfer credits or provide credit for on-the-job training.
In fact, many firms and nonprofits are trying to lure back their recently-retired boomers, at least part-time, for their competencies, knowledge transfer and mentoring.
These competencies were transferred over the past 30 years and, in particular, the Basque Health Service, called Osakidetza, was created in 1983.
Instructors using an ITTF approach see their role as mainly to transmit information to students and to focus on development of skills that improve competency in information transfer.
"You can transfer competencies to a certain extent.
Competencies are the transfer; they're the performance component that bundles lots of standards together into one demonstrable concept.
The taxi strike in the summer only ended after the government agreed to transfer regulatory competency for the VTC sector to the regions.
And ride-hailing companies appear to be seeking legal avenues to block the government's latest move to devolve regulatory powers (for instance an Uber spokesperson pointed us to this report, in Mercado Financiero, which quotes a law professor questioning the constitutional validity of the government's use of a decree to transfer the competency).
We had also hypothesised that there would be significant gains in patients' self reported competency to walk and transfer according to the stroke impact scale, the Rivermead mobility index, and their ability to walk in the community as measured with the mobility domain of the Nottingham extended activities of daily living scale.
Successful medical learning requires a considerable time investment not only in the development of core and specific competencies, but also in the ability to transfer basic cognitive competencies to the clinical setting through the integration of personal experience and vast information sources [ 1, 3].
