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Although professional expertise is generally considered to be a key attribute of any profession, little analysis of it has been directly undertaken. Using a model that distinguishes the kinds of uncertainty faced by the profession from those faced by individual practitioners, this study suggests how uncertainty is absorbed through professionalization and managed by practitioners through the use of professional standards. Examination of this use reveals the professional contradictions in expertise between individual virtualities and collective science; the dilemmas that standards produce by permitting the democratization of expertise yet enabling the proletarianization of professionals; and how standards may be used by outsiders to analyze and evaluate directly a profession's expertise, thereby facilitating a measure of societal control over seemingly autonomously generated knowledge.

PurposeIn the last ten years, there has been much debate about the need for the licensing and regulation of property valuers in Europe. The European Union has "hinted" at the need for a pan‐European licensing scheme in keeping with the model of licensing in the USA. This paper seeks to discuss the option of regulation available and the role of the RICS in introducing a comprehensive self‐regulatory process.Design/methodology/approachThis paper looks at the evolution of the "RICS Valuers Registration Scheme" and the potential impact it will have on raising the standards of valuations not just in the UK but worldwide.FindingsThe RICS Standards require the valuer to undertake valuations in an appropriate and professional manner. The potential impact of the "RICS Valuers Registration Scheme" is that it will educate the profession and thus increase overall standards. Although the system does have sanctions, if required, the intent is not to penalise but to encourage and promote good practice.Originality/valueThis paper is a review of the "RICS Valuers Registration Scheme". It outlines the history of the development of the scheme and the potential impact that it will have on the quality of valuations worldwide.

A shortened version of a report by a subcommittee of the First division association.

1. Introduction to part I / Allyson MacVean -- 2. Theory of professional standards and ethical policing / Jonathan Hughes -- 3. The Taylor review / William Taylor -- 4. Policing the police : investigating professional standards / Len Jackson -- 5. The duality if police oversight in Scotland : an examination of the role of the police complaints commissioner for Scotland and the crown office and procurator fiscal / Ian Todd -- 6. Introduction to part II / Allyson Macvean, Peter Spindler and Charlotte Solf -- 7. Deaths in or following police custody : an examination of cases from 1998/99-2008/09 / Maria Hannan -- 8. Police deviance : child sexual abuse / Ray Robins -- 9. Computer misuse and information leakage / David Perryman -- 10. A good buy : promoting probity in police procurement / Julie Ayling -- 11. Professional and ethical considerations for the role of the undercover operative in investigations / Mark Daly -- 12. Introduction to part III / Allyson MacVean, Peter Spindler and Charlotte Solf -- 13. Ethical working and M15 / Frank Gregory and David Langley -- 14. Trans-national crime investigation : professional standards in relation to joint international operations : a new challenge / Paul Evans -- 15. Counter corruption : an international perspective / Stephen Foster -- 16. Risk and the management of integrity / Clive Harfield and Karen Harfield -- 17. Navigating the moral minefield : leadership, professional standards and ethical policing / John Grieve -- 18. Introduction to part IV / Allyson MacVean, Peter Spindler and Charlotte Solf -- 19. Through a glass darkly : some future influences on professional standards in policing / Peter Neyroud and Stan Gilmour -- 20. Prevention and organisational learning : a new paradigm in professional standards / Brian Dillon -- 21. Does the training of police recruits in England and Wales meet the needs of professional and ethical practice? / Richard Heslop -- 22. Unethical policing on trial / Michael Mansfield -- 23. Some reflective observations and conclusion / John Grieve.

A project conducted in a primary school explored the hypothesis that student teachers could reflect upon feedback to improve their use of emotional intelligence in the classroom, thereby making consequent improvements to their teaching as defined by the required professional teaching standards. The small body of literature on the emotional intelligence of teaching is reviewed, informing a defi nition of the term 'emotional intelligence' and the project's research methodology. Four student teachers and their teacher mentors participated with a teacher educator to provide two data sets – joint lesson observations records and semi-structured interviews. The joint observations were conducted with the teacher educator, using an observational checklist based on an emotional intelligence competencies framework, and the mentor, assessing demonstration of the required professional standards. Two lessons per student were observed with a four week interval. Shortly after the second observation, student teachers and mentors were interviewed in peer pairs. The outcomes show linked improvements in terms of emotional intelligence and the professional standards, with the mentor and student teacher participants confirming the value and relevance of assessment through an emotional intelligence filter. The findings have implications for emergent and established teachers in school and higher education settings. They call for a learning community to share good practice and support each other's development through observation, discussion and modelling of emotionally-intelligent teaching and conduct. The study concludes that higher education programmes and partner schools would benefit from time, curriculum provision and government agency support to recognise, reflect upon and develop emotional intelligence in teaching.