There’s something sloppy about efforts by the Kaduna State government to ensure quality control in its education system by tracking the competency of teachers. Rather than beef up standards, those ...

DOCTORS may soon be tested to prove they still have the skills to safely treat patients under a proposal being examined by the Medical Board of Australia. Amid concerns more than 1350 Australian ...

Improving employee competency testing in long-term care facilities can help reduce rehospitalizations, cut down on workplace injuries and boost overall resident care, an expert told a national ...

It's not uncommon for physicians to push back against age-based competency testing or even go so far as to call the practice discriminatory. Proponents of screening, however, argue that it's a ...

After testing more than 70 adolescents in the Grand Forks County juvenile court system, University of North Dakota researchers have concluded that courts nationwide should take steps to ensure that ...

As part of its ongoing initiative to regulate previously unenrolled tax return preparers, the IRS announced on Tuesday that competency testing for registered tax return preparers will start next week ...

At the American Medical Association s annual meeting, officials said they are developing mandatory competency guidelines for aging physicians. With more than a quarter of doctors over the age of 65, ...

As millions of Americans approach age 66, they face the inevitable question, is it time to retire? The physician population is aging alongside the general population – more than 40% of physicians in ...

The Democratic Alliance has described the announcement by the Department of Higher Education that it is moving towards competency tests for teachers as a "hugely welcome" development. The announcement ...

Spectrum News: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, weighed in on a controversial idea in politics: requiring mandatory competency testing ...

Medical doctors are becoming victims of age discrimination in Las Vegas. So asserts Dr. Dale Carrison, the 77-year-old chief of staff at University Medical Center and the hospital’s head of emergency ...