Employers want university graduates to be equipped with strong “generic” skills rather than technical ones.
Employers want universities to train students how to think, solve problems and communicate rather than simply equipping them with technical skills, according to Australian Universities Accord Panel chairwoman Professor Mary O’Kane.called on universities to “bring back the tutorial” and said the more generic aspects of her undergraduate degree studying maths and physics at the University of Queensland had helped her professionally.
“In speaking to employers, one of the strongest messages we get is actually not so much about technical and professional skills, which are very important, but about the generic skills, which go back to the sort of role of university in teaching us how to think, how to learn, how to communicate,” Professor O’Kane said on Tuesday.
“Can we do virtual online tutorials that are really just as good? I have seen examples of it many years ago ... but it does require particular effort in the teaching work.”Professor O’Kane said universities had grown significantly since the 1980s “but we didn’t change the way that universities have taught, and I feel so worried about that”.Lisa Bolton, director of the Social Research Centre at the ANU, says the pandemic hindered students from developing collaboration skills.
“We need to make more explicit what skills we’re actually teaching ... to explain to students while we’re torturing them with group work.”
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