Facing up to the challenge: why is it so hard to develop graduate attributes?
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Article Title | Facing up to the challenge: why is it so hard to develop graduate attributes? |
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ERA Journal ID | 20348 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Green, Wendy (Author), Hammer, Sara (Author) and Star, Cassandra (Author) |
Journal Title | Higher Education Research and Development |
Journal Citation | 28 (1), pp. 17-29 |
Number of Pages | 13 |
Year | 2009 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Place of Publication | London, United Kingdom |
ISSN | 0729-4360 |
1469-8366 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360802444339 |
Abstract | Debate continues regarding the nature and desirability of graduate attributes, driven partly by stakeholder expectations that universities will prepare employees for the knowledge economy, and partly by higher education academics and learning specialists. While universities appear to have accepted their new vocational role, there is considerable confusion over how these things – graduate skills, attributes or capabilities - should be defined and implemented. Conceptual confusion, combined with a range of external pressures and internal management issues have the potential to derail this important project. To date, stakeholders such as government and business, as well as universities have seriously underestimated the kind of cultural, institutional and policy changes required to implement the graduate skills agenda. This paper outlines the issues that will need to be addressed by the higher education sector if universities are to play a proactive rather than reactive role in shaping the graduate attributes agenda. |
Keywords | employability; graduate attributes; graduate outcomes; generic skills; implementation; higher education research |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390201. Education policy |
390402. Education assessment and evaluation | |
350503. Human resources management | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | University of Queensland |
Learning and Teaching Support Unit | |
Flinders University |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9yy71/facing-up-to-the-challenge-why-is-it-so-hard-to-develop-graduate-attributes
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