Journalism in Britain may not have been a profession, but it was a skilled trade in the best sense.
It's a skilled, coherent performance, but it's too tamped down, as is so much here.
It's a skilled job, she explains, because you need to know where the databases are, how they work (each does so differently, of course!), how the data were derived, and whether you can trust them.
I knew I had to make it look like I was a skilled fighter, which I'm not.
Additionally, I had to make it look like I was a skilled fighter underwater, so I tried to do my best.
Although it is a highly skilled profession, unlike areas such as law and finance, there are no accreditations or formal exams needed to become a developer.
In the data collection stage, resources must be allocated for properly trained researchers to conduct the qualitative interviewing because it is a highly skilled activity.
The UK, I fear, persists in the delusion that it is a high-skilled high-productivity, high-pay economy when for at least a decade or more it has been nothing of the kind.
