Your NHS dentist is private too.

DMcG. Yes, the management consultants provide lazy literature, but many inject private sector terms along with private sector methodology. Another Musket tells of when he got Unipart to help him improve throughput of patients in a large hospital. They know about logistics whilst clinical teams know about patients. At no point did either side refer to patients as replacement headlight bulbs. (His paper he published on their experience was quite interesting. But I'm sure he'll tell you about it if you ask him.)

Back to teaching, I'm sure I'm not the only one shocked at the low standard of written English by younger people these days. I am involved with teaching medical students, whose grades at A Level do tend to be the pick of the crop but whilst I don't confess to excellent use of language myself, (the sciences were my strong point) even I struggle to see merit in some of the written assignments I assess.

When I get dragged (kicking and screaming) onto interview panels for staff members, especially administrative, I might be getting older but I find myself ranting at the quality of the outcome of some schools these days. If the better teachers are emigrating?? (So are many UK younger doctors for that matter.)