1. Using diverse professional teams and a graduate qualities framework to develop generic skills within a commerce degree
- Author
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Chris Graves, Sue McGowan, John Medlin, McGowan, Susan Carol, Graves, Christopher Raymond, and Medlin, John Francis
- Subjects
"Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services not elsewhere classified" ,Higher education ,Education Systems ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Bachelor ,International Economics and International Finance ,Education ,Skills management ,Pedagogy ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION ,Group work ,Competence (human resources) ,media_common ,ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION ,business.industry ,Learning environment ,International Business ,Skill development ,commerce ,Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services not elsewhere classified ,Educational research ,graduate qualities framework ,generic skills ,Engineering ethics ,business ,Psychology ,Curriculum and Pedagogy - Abstract
This paper outlines the approach taken to use teams of diverse professionals and a Graduate Qualities framework to develop students' generic skills within a Bachelor of Commerce degree. The Graduate Qualities framework is closely aligned with the Professional Requirements of the Australian accounting professional bodies and the generic skills of the Australian Council for Educational Research. The pressure to embed the development of generic skills into university courses comes from three areas: the government, employers and the universities. With the impending trialing of Graduate Skills Assessment in universities, the increasing interest by the accounting profession to produce broader thinking graduates and universities' management to improve their institutional ratings, academics will be required to develop students' generic skills through the teaching and learning environment they provide in their subjects. This paper also outlines the changes implemented as an outcome of this process that resulted in...
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- 2003