Style Singular and plural Organisations and institutions are singular: ‘the Commission has adopted a Directive ‘‘Siemens is restructuring its organisation’;‘the government is urging voters to support the referendum’. Management is also singular. ‘Company management has introduced a new policy’. So is employer. Staff can be both singular and plural. In many languages the word education is countable. In English it is not. You cannot have two different educations. Choose ‘two different degrees’ or another alternative. Good practice, bad practice and best practice are uncountable. Bad practices exist, but mean something slightly different, more like ‘bad ideas’. In most ETF use, the closest you can get to a plural of ‘best practice’ would be ‘examples of bad practice’.
