Skills Development in Higher Education and Employment

By Neville Bennett. 2000

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Gaps between competence and importance of employability skills: evidence from Malaysia (2019, background): “In this study, the generic skills consist of ten skills: communication, numeracy, IT, learning how to learn, problem solving, working with others and subject-specific competencies ( Jelas and Azman, 2005; Bennett et al., 2000; Cornford, 1999).”
A Validated and Reliable Instrument Investigating Engineering Students’ Perceptions of Competency in Generic Skills (2017, methodology): “In this article, we will use generic skills to refer to skills and competencies that are beyond disciplinary knowledge and which can be applied broadly across different contexts (Bennett, Dunne, & Carr e, 2000).”
Complexity and Curriculum: A process approach to curriculum-making (2001, background): “In Britain, many HEIs have adopted modularised curricula in the name of exibility and student choice, but critics allege that they jeopardise curriculum coherence (Bennett et al., 2000) and that high degrees of student choice spoil planned progression.”
Graduate Employability and Competence Development in Higher Education—A Systematic Literature Review Using PRISMA (2020, background): “Nevertheless, in the literature, it is also possible to identify other terms, such as transferable competences [13], generic skills [32], or employability competences [33].”
Generic Cognitive Abilities in Higher Education: An international analysis of skills sought by stakeholders (2003, background): “• Bennett et al. (2000).”
What Skills and Attributes Does an Accounting Graduate Need? Evidence from Student Perceptions and Employer Expectations (2008, unknown): “Many studies have cast a broad net in terms of the stakeholder groups but examined generic skills not necessarily specific for accounting graduates or the accounting profession (Bennett et al., 2000; Crebert, 2002; Leggett et al., 2004; ACNielsen Research Services, 2000).”
Evaluation of competency methods in engineering education: a systematic review (2019, background): “…and for learners to become capable of adapting to change’ and are also known in the literature as employability skills (Markes 2006), generic skills (Bennett, Dunne, and Carré 2000), key competencies (Organisation for Economic Co-Operation Development 2005), non-technical skills (Knobbs and…”
Developing generic skills at university, during work placement and in employment: graduates' perceptions (2004, background): “A number of studies (Atkins, 1999; Bennett et al., 2000; Gallagher, 2000; Harvey et al., 1997) found that the expectations of employer groups in relation to university education appear to be strongly influenced by highly context-bound interpretations of desirable graduate attributes, capabilities, c”