role of professional institutions

PROFESSIONAL ISSUSES IN COMPUTING

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ROLE OF PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTIONS

1/ The definition of a profession – A profession is a calling requiring specialised knowledge and often long and intensive preparation including instruction in skills and methods as well as in the scientific, historical or scholarly principles underlying such skills and methods, maintaining by force of organisation or concerted opinion high standards of achievement and conduct.
2/ The law society of Scotland –
The society is made up of a Council, a series of Committees and a permanent management staff. The Council meets every month to discuss current legal issues and to ratify the decisions of the Committees of the Society. Some of the Society's Committees have a regulatory function while others monitor and develop services across a wide range ...