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Work Experience: Business Students' Voice!, Gary Marchioro, Maria Ryan, Helen Cripps
Work Experience: Business Students' Voice!, Gary Marchioro, Maria Ryan, Helen Cripps
Maria M Ryan
Aligning business undergraduate programs with industry skill and work requirements is reshaping higher education. It is now an acknowledged and strategic initiative to react to business demands in the education sphere. The framework for learning generic skills has been well developed and documented in reference to employer groups and articulated through many university programs. However, the development, monitoring and evaluation of these skills uptake using student views are not well documented. This paper presents university students‘ perceptions of their personal generic skills capabilities. The literature addresses the need for these skills to be inclusive of both personal attributes in conjunction …