The performance schools, which will take talented 12-16 year-olds, is based on the notion that, to produce world-class athletes, 10,000 hours of practise must be invested from the age of 10-20 or from 12 to 22.
Tests of clinical competence, which allow decisions to be made about medical qualification and fitness to practise, must be designed with respect to key issues including blueprinting, validity, reliability, and standard setting, as well as clarity about their formative or summative function.
Stardom allowed Bonds to indulge his talent for isolation, which he practised, it must be said, even outside the clubhouse.
Lipatti wrote that when you practise, you must be careful about injecting any sentiment into a piece: rehearsed time and again, it becomes mannered and contrived.
"The board also believes that any doctor who does not share the board's belief is so dangerous that his or her right to practise medicine must be suspended immediately".
Any nurse wishing to practise abroad must be registered with the professional regulatory authority of the destination country.
Thubten says it is tricky to quantify, but they must be practising regularly, ideally for around an hour a day, with regular intensive retreats.
I would have loved to read a bit more about the psychology of self-deception that any unapologetic elitist must be practising, but the aim here is really more polemical than that approach would allow.
Driving instructors have been warned safe sex must be practised and any sexual activity must not endanger public safety.
The GMC chief executive, Niall Dickson, reporting strong support in a consultation on the changes, said: "Doctors who want to practise in the UK must be able to communicate effectively in English to ensure the safety of their patients.
