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Skills Development in Science and Engineering (Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London)
The project aimed to integrate a comprehensive range of key skills into designated modular programmes of study in science and engineering disciplines; to raise awareness of key skills and to embed them into the curricula, paying due account to student diversity.
The objectives may be summarised as follows;
The first phase of the project comprised a questionnaire given to approximately 400 graduates, of which about one third responded, giving a long list of skills which they felt had been developed, together with a list of skills which they felt had not been needed in their employment. With the exception of giving oral presentations the two lists were different.
A second questionnaire was sent to employers, the emerging themes were
There is a clear mismatch between the perceptions of recent graduates and employers of recent graduates. The graduates consider that they have developed many key skills during their degree studies, whereas the view of employers was that, in general, such development was inadequate.
The audit showed that there was far greater activity in the area of key skills than is shown from official course documentation, however there was a lack of co-ordination of key skills both within modules and between modules.
The project was terminated by mutual agreement after the preliminary work had been completed.
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