AIIC came into being expressly to define and maintain the standards of proficiency, the working conditions, and the ethics of the conference interpreter.
There is a need to create a European certification system for education and training in radiation protection, based on the development of standards of proficiency for health professionals, as an instrument to guarantee safety procedures to European citizens, through harmonisation of practice through education and training.
Only one in five of Uganda's primary school teachers meets the minimum standards of proficiency in numeracy, literacy and pedagogy, and about two out of four teachers are absent from class daily.
Dr. Jack Buckley, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, said in a press call that the standards of proficiency were tailored to reflect the computer-based nature of the assessment, and that students' writing was evaluated holistically -- taking into account development of ideas, organization and language facility and conventions.
Evidence-based practice (EBP) has become an important competency in many allied and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) health care practitioners' professional standards of proficiency.
Regardless of speciality, teaching of evidence-based medicine (EBM) or EBP has become part of the core medical training in the United Kingdom [ 2] and has also become recognised as an important competency in many allied [ 3- 10] and complementary (CAM) [ 11- 13] health care practitioners' professional standards of proficiency.
Interpreters, who must meet minimum standards of proficiency in both English and a community language, are also trained in skills such as memory retention, turn taking, appropriate terminology and the degree of formality to be used in a given interpreting situation [ 5].
But Hanban's staff of only around 50 can barely cope with the volume of applications, on top of its other duties which include administering Hanyu Shuipin Kaoshi, the standard test of proficiency in Chinese.So Hanban has let the network grow organically.
"I'm spending a lot of time with them because I want to make sure they meet my standard of driving proficiency," Mr. Cuomo said.
For example, in Taiwan, a common standard of English proficiency has been established through adopting the CEFR (Wu and Wu 2007).
