It is intended to plug what the EC sees as a gap in the market for a gold-standard qualification focusing on consumer protection, as opposed to more business-orientated subjects such as commercial competition law.
For example, OCR has a suite of new qualifications that focus on this area and use technologies to look at entrepreneurial and business skills.
I am also a personal patient of Dr. Fung and can heartily vouch for his qualifications, his focus and his abilities.
Even more troubling, the bill's "highly qualified teacher" standard applies only to teachers in their first year or so, after which the bill abandons teacher qualifications to focus on teacher evaluation results in states that have implemented evaluation systems.
Morgan believes the qualification should focus on issues such as how to manage change.
Inevitably, most of the media reports, and practically all of the politicians, ignored these qualifications and focussed on the report's conclusions.
They want the new qualification to focus on statistics, mathematical modelling of real-life problems and general mathematical fluency.
Some 80% of firms said the top priority was better designed qualifications, more focused on employers' needs and industry standards.
Indeed, Obama's first ad citing Palin avoided attacking her qualifications, but focused on her as part of the McCain team's "no change" policies on Iraq and the economy.
Qualification guidelines focus on several factors including citizenship, age, work experience, and education in addition to including a background and criminal record check and taking a drug test.
