Re: [hangout] Re: pittance

[email protected] (Chris Devers)
Newsgroups perl.jobs.discuss
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On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS wrote:

> A certification which is not MANDATED by the government for practice is
> without much value.

Are the professional associations in medicine & law legally mandated, or
"just" professionally expected? I know that these fields have licenses
and such, but I thought they were operated by respected professional
organizations (medical boards, the state bar associations) rather than
being actual legal affairs.

What about Certified Public Accountants? I thought CPAs were granted by
universities, not states. Am I wrong about that?

I agree with you that some form of professional accreditation wouldn't
be a bad thing, but I'm not sure that it has to be government backed. If
we had some kind of "computer science guild" (ACM?), they could fill
this role at least as well as any government, no?


-- 
Chris Devers
hardly a libertarian by any stretch,
but willing to be a devil's advocate
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