It seems very likely that allowing the principals to choose which teachers to lay off will most likely result in a better teaching staff than a layoff strategy based entirely on a criteria with no relation to performance.
Correspondents say the Catholic Church in Austria has been losing support in recent years after its former head was sacked as a result of a scandal involving gay priests in a teaching college.
For me to adopt an embryo, I wasn't going against their teaching any more than if I had adopted a child that was a result of premarital sex through domestic adoption.
Participants also called for the need to establish a comprehensive basis for National Qualifications Frameworks to guide teacher training, evaluate experiential acquisitions for validation, and certifications that would result in ensuring a positive impact on career development for the teaching profession.
And the greatest danger of all, given that most education and health spending goes on pay, may be that much of the extra money provided as a result of the comprehensive spending review ends up in the wallets of the teaching and medical professions, without much in the way of service improvement to show for it.