Still, Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt sees a problem.
Local EIS secretary Andrew Stewart said the basic problem was that the contract focused on financial considerations not educational ones and consultation with schools was inadequate.
Education Secretary Michael Gove said that the problem was not "elitism or snobbery" but a lack of honesty in higher education about "the subject and qualification choices which prepare students best for university study".
One thing that seems clear: a further downgrade will be a problem for a new Treasury Secretary.
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One way to square that circle is try to make Duncan out to be the problem, as if the education secretary has gone rogue.
General Secretary Russell Hobby said the cause of recruitment problem was a combination of the negative "rhetoric that the profession was subject to, the ever-rising targets and the fear of Ofsted is a huge trigger for this".
Ministers from Helen Liddell, when she was Scottish secretary, to the current justice secretary, Kenny MacAskill, have highlighted Buckfast as a problem drink.
In a sharp rebuke Tuesday, President Barack Obama said he has no tolerance for the problem and that he had talked to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel about it.
But Justice Secretary Ken Clarke blamed Labour for the "historic" problem with probation staff spending too much time on paperwork and suggested Mr Khan was "in denial" about the UK's "deficit problem".
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Meanwhile Mr Khan, the shadow justice secretary, said the plan "does not address the problem of unreformed offenders who have completed their sentence being released to commit crime and inflict harm on the public".
The industry support "forms a bridge between the public and private sectors and will assist Interpol and each of its 190 member countries to more effectively tackle the problem of medical product counterfeiting, " Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said in a statement.
Its executive secretary, Ivy Josiah, says the authorities' response to problem cases is improving.
But shadow home secretary Oliver Letwin said this was exactly the type of legal problem he had warned about.
Labour health spokeswoman Margaret Curran pressed Ms Sturgeon over claims she had not revealed the full extent of the problem at an earlier date - but the heath secretary said she had been "persistently clear".
In Washington, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the border region remains "a real problem" for allied troops battling a resurgent Taliban and its al Qaeda allies in Afghanistan, particularly along the rugged border with Pakistan.
In a statement, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley agreed with NICE on the urgency of the problem, but he said it was not clear that a minimum price "is the best way to impact price in order to impact demand".
The justice secretary said there was not a single cause or solution to the problem.
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Part of the problem, as my colleague Donald Marron notes, is that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has muddied the rhetorical waters by warning about the potential of the government defaulting on its debt if the debt ceiling is breached.
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And the President would gladly engage with Congress if there was a demonstration of a sincere interest by Republicans to act on the DREAM Act because, as he made clear on Friday, the enforcement decisions that were made by the Secretary of DHS did not represent in any way a permanent solution to this problem.
Shadow health secretary Tim Yeo said the plans would only "scratch the surface" of the problem.
Yesterday the US Treasury Secretary said it was "unfair to see Germany as the sole source of the problem".
The new transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin has told the Conservative Party conference the government plans to improve 57 problem points on roads in England.
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Mr Blunkett, who served as work and pensions secretary under Tony Blair, told BBC Inside Out that a political solution to the problem of paying for elderly care was unlikely to emerge.
Some people (not least Mr Johnson) have accused the government of sweeping the problem under the carpet until after the next election but the new Transport Secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, told the hearing that, "just over two years is a reasonable time table".
Derek Simpson, joint general secretary of Unite, told BBC Breakfast that besides this dispute there was a "wider problem" to address.
In a joint statement on Thursday, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and FAA Administrator Michael Huerta reiterated that they are determined to fix the problem.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says talks are focusing on threats in the Gulf, the problem of extremism, whether by al-Qaida or Iran and, as she put it, Iran's tentacles in the region.
Gisela Stuart, Labour MP, Sheila Gunn, former press secretary to John Major, Jo Phillips, former press secretary for Paddy Ashdown, when he was party leader, discussed how much of a problem sexual harassment is for women at all levels of party politics, and how often it is that women in parliament find themselves treated as a sex objects.
For evidence of the problem, just think about the top corporate executives who chatted about reform with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner the other day.
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Secretary General KOFI ANNAN (United Nations): We should not imagine that that would mean the problem is solved.
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