American and other Western advisers are embedded in a number of Afghan ministries and governmental institutions to help officials to gain technical skills and institute professional standards.
Private Manning was a misfit as well in the Army, which he joined in the hope of gaining technical skills and an education, and which eventually sent him to Contingency Operating Station Hammer, a remote post east of Baghdad, where he had access to some of the nation's deepest military and diplomatic secrets.
Participants stressed the benefits of being exposed to new perspectives like the client-centred approach, gaining technical skills for interventions, and working with an interdisciplinary team.
Despite their pride in gaining technical care skills, caregivers lament their lack of formal recognition through training, remuneration or mobility within the health system.
Piecemeal agreements between two nuclear powers to reduce, but not eliminate, their atomic inventories are insufficient; as the United States and Russia leisurely reduce their stocks, other states are building up arsenals, and still others are gaining the technical skills to advance their own programs.
And it requires joining with governments to ensure Africans gain the technical skills needed so they can be the workers who develop their country's resources.
A sense of professional identity emerges as students engage iteratively with being able to do something through gaining knowledge, technical skills and problem solving abilities (the knowing dimension), to being able to do it with understanding within the context of self and others (the empathic dimension) to being increasingly self aware and culturally sensitive (the reflective dimension).
As Mount gained in technical skill and sophistication, his portraits and studies of rural life achieved a rare balance of human interest and sensitivity to the individuals he depicted, as in "Long Island Farmer Husking Corn" and "California News".
Karavkin says he gained the necessary technical skills to make his car while working at a weapons factory, and took inspiration for the design from popular science magazines.
