Since announcing her candidacy for president in next year's contest, Nikki Haley has repeatedly called for making "mental competency tests" compulsory for politicians over the age of 75. On Monday, ...

When you hire an employee to work for your company, he must remain competent. An incompetent employee can slow down the company's overall productivity, as well as lower the morale of the workplace ...

Nikki Haley, former ambassador to the United Nations, speaks at the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America headquarters in Arlington, Va., on April 25. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Since ...

Businesses use several tools to assess the competency of their workers. Such instruments measure the ability to perform the job and ancillary skills such as spatial reasoning. Moreover, employers have ...

Marks flatten human potential. Two students may each score 80 in a Maths exam. Yet one might read a chart like a detective. The other may model a situation with elegant algebra. Conventional testing ...

This article is part of the collection: Real Life Learning: An Up Close Look at Competency-Based Education. In Thomas County, Georgia, students who have struggled in the mainstream have found a home ...

A plan by the department of basic education to subject aspirant principals to a competency test has hit a brick wall after 93% of the successful candidates failed to write the assessment. Only 103 of ...