Following a catalogue of serious, highly publicized medical misdemeanours, the General Medical Council (GMC) has introduced plans for a new system of medical licensing in the UK called 'revalidation'. Under this, the onus will fall on individual doctors, including occupational physicians, to demonstrate their continuing fitness to practice. Doctors will need to show that they meet basic minimum...

Calls for heightened consideration of fairness and accountability in algorithmically-informed public decisions—like taxation, justice, and child protection—are now commonplace. How might designers support such human values? We interviewed 27 public sector machine learning practitioners across 5 OECD countries regarding challenges understanding and imbuing public values into their work. The resu...

Professionalism and accountability, intellectual property rights, privacy and information protection, and a variety of other ethical dilemmas are an integral part of the software engineer’s eventual career. The software engineering community has therefore recognized the importance of building a culture of software engineering ethics to guide the behaviour of and decisions made by professional s...

Death certificates and autopsy reports contain personal identifying information and clinical information protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. These documents are used, for example, by the families of the deceased for settling estates, bereavement and closure, and genetic counseling of relatives. Insurance companies, public health and law enfor...

Tests and assessments in the USA have taken on additional burdens as their uses have been greatly expanded by educators, employers, and policy makers. Increased demands are often placed on the same assessment, by different constituencies, to serve varied purposes (e. g., instructional reform, student accountability, quality of teaching and instruction). Such trends have raised considerable conc...

Government agencies collect and disseminate data that bear on the most important issues of public interest. Advances in information technology, particularly the Internet, have created a globalized technology society and multiplied the tension between demands for ever more comprehensive databases and demands for the shelter of privacy. In reconciling information privacy and information access, a...

Previous research has shown that young people’s voices are under- and misrepresented in the news. However, editorial mechanisms behind this outcome remain largely unexplored. Drawing from professional frame of media accountability, people present journalism with a double challenge: to avoid harm while enabling participation. In paper, we examine including/excluding news Sweden Estonia through a...

Comparative measures of learning outcomes and professional actions are set out to indicate accountability VET. Individualisation fragmentation education emphasise counselling students as support for their learning. The purpose the article is identify how counsellor teacher practitioners perceive opportunities challenges in merging pedagogical fundamental conventions work with structures framewo...

background regarding the process of increasing the divorce rate in recent years and youth population, the awareness among the youth, especially the university students, about marriage and criteria of choosing a right partner for proper planning to preserve family is of great importance. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the viewpoint of unmarried students of semnan university ...