Competences represent a dynamic combination of cognitive and metacognitive skills, knowledge and understanding, interpersonal, intellectual and practical skills, and ethical values. Fostering these competences is the object of all educational programmes. Competences are developed in all course units and assessed at different stages of a programme. [..]

a competence model of professional education attempts to reduce practice to a pre-specifiable list of skills. It is an approach linked to efforts to import business models into the public sector and t [..]