Bolton is by all accounts a clever and energetic fellow, but cleverness is not competence, and energy can amplify vice as readily as virtue.
The solution is not competence or character but the right mixture of both.
Deasy ended the evening with an emotional avowal, saying "poverty is not destiny" and "language proficiency is not competence".
"What I want to see in students," he told me, "is not competence with a computer, but curiosity, enthusiasm, a yearning to fool around with the very mundane world around them, not disappear into movies.
It also encodes proteins that are not competence-induced, but that are known to participate in DNA uptake or recombination (i.e., RecA, TopA, AtpA, and DsbA, additional file 2: Table S2) [ 30].
Challenges identified include: curricula that are not competence-based; unclear distinctions between nursing and midwifery especially in francophone countries; shortage of teachers; and inadequate training and teaching materials and infrastructure [ 19].
Judge Lord Doherty, sitting at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, has ruled that the legislation was not outside the competence of the Scottish Parliament, and that it is within the devolved competence and powers of Scottish ministers.
Against our expectations, experience with disease was not associated with competence in this study.
Having worked with this client for many years, I am confident that this wasn't a competence issue.
The other half was not implementing a social competence program.
