That's something which we, the health service and the profession more generally have got to tackle.
The Tung administration is beset by public dissatisfaction over unemployment, a string of administrative fumbles, and unpopular reforms in housing, the civil service and the teaching profession.
The nine-strong review committee included two senior judges, senior officials from the probation service and the psychiatric profession, a children's charity and Assistant Metropolitan Police Commissioner David Veness.
It is to be hoped that, when Fernando de la Rua takes office as Argentina's new president on December 10th, he gets more accurate service from the dismal profession.
The profession most dominated by Oxford and Cambridge graduates was the diplomatic service at 62%, followed by the law at 58% and the top echelons of the civil service at 55%.
Yet this notion animates many in the Foreign Service whose almost caste-like view of their profession encourages their contempt for political masters with whom they disagree and, not infrequently, their rank insubordination.
The money management profession is one of the few in the world where virtually everyone involved fails to deliver the service that is being sold.
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First of all, the project calls for substantial improvements in pre-service teacher training, not only promoting the entry of the best candidates into the profession, but also fundamentally strengthening the quality of programmes available in terms of curriculum content, training and assessment strategies, training in working with diverse groups, and staff quality.
The State of the Art sets out to indicate the key trends that characterise the situation of teachers and policies relating to teachers, in terms of pre-service teacher training, continuing training, the teaching career, and working conditions for those in the profession, as well as the key institutional processes involved in the creation and implementation of public policies in the sphere of teaching.
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