Likewise we are redesigning apprenticeships, with employers holding the pen and telling us what standard of competence we should expect an apprentice to achieve.
Bridget Williams, the principal of Mountain Grove Middle School, maintains that very bright children do not deserve specially tailored classes, especially when the district is focusing on bringing all children up to a minimum standard of competence.
On that basis, a trial judge ruled last Friday that Mr. Ferguson was competent and could be executed, and the Florida Supreme Court upheld that view, saying no "stricter standard" of competence is required.
CHEAPSKATE, absentee or neglectful owners who fail to maintain a minimum standard of competence in operating their franchises are dealt with in Condition 15, which specifies that their teams be moved to Quebec City, Altoona, Pa., or Bakersfield, Calif., for five years or until they promise to get serious.
A defendant who is competent to stand trial is therefore also competent to plead guilty, waiving the full panoply of trial rights, but not necessarily competent enough to represent herself at trial in the face of a state procedural rule requiring a higher standard of competence for pro se representation.
Selection procedures involve a minimum standard of competence acceptable to a range of interested stakeholders including; employers, universities, government, the professional colleges, and the wider community.
In the selection of its staff, UNICEF is committed to securing the highest standard of competence, by means of a competitive selection process and to achieving gender and geographic balance.
"Forensic laboratories must adhere to the highest standards of competence, independence and integrity.
And far too often the lawyers provided for indigent defendants have not met the barest standards of competence.
We would search from a diverse array of candidates and nominate those who met the highest standards of competence.
