Simultaneous development of management skills and behaviours in taught academic programmes

Ward, Anthony; Jackson, Noel

doi:10.1109/ithet.2014.7155699

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“…Authors like Baruah and Ward [3] have emphasized the need for design of Higher Education curricula to cater to different interdisciplinary programmes and develop a range of skills within the overall discipline. Ward and Jackson [4] highlighted how Higher Education engineering programmes today focus their overall learning objectives "to develop graduates who can add value to a wide range of employers giving the graduate career choice" [pg.1]. With a growing global interest in environmental sustainability, green job skills requirement are coming across particularly as a crucial challenge for Higher Education to address in their curricula design.…”

Section: Job Advertisements For Curricula Designmentioning

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Using job advertisements to inform curricula design for the key global technical challenges

Ward

Gbadebo

Baruah

2015

2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)

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The paper presents the general methodology using results of job advertisements from the renewable energies sector that can be used for comparison against sample Higher Education curricula in the same technical area. The declared essential and desirable technical skills are shown in matrix form across the range of job roles and together both show the required graduate attributes as well as within industry sector career development or progression pathways. Viewed as a sector whole, the analysis also shows those skills that cross sub-areas and hence may be better suited to foundation modules within a programme with the skills more specific to a sub-discipline being the optional or 'programme aligning' modules. The results will help Higher Education develop curricula more aligned to industrial needs and will help different industries see the way skills are expressed in existing curricula. Through these two benefits the qualified graduate supply/demand balance may be improved.

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Section: Job Advertisements For Curricula Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using job advertisements to inform curricula design for the key global technical challenges

Ward

Gbadebo

Baruah

2015

2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)

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“…There are examples of programmes where there is an emphasis on the development of generic skills alongside the technical content [10], pedagogies such as Problem Based Learning, Project Based Learning and Curiosity Based Learning are also methods of achieving this. Lack of clear definition of generic skills is made more difficult by the differences in which competence in them is specified.…”

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What do job adverts tell Higher Education about the ‘shape’ of Biomedical Engineering Graduates?

Ward

Baruah

Gbadebo

et al. 2017

International Conference on Advancements of Medicine and Health Care Through Technology; 12th - 15th October 2016, Cluj-Napoca,

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Abstract-Higher Education Institutions are required, at least in some Countries, to design their curricula taking into account the needs of relevant industry. Use of Industrial Advisory Committees is a common way of demonstrating this input. This paper explores an additional window to industry needs through the textual analysis of job advertisements. 36 internet published adverts using the "Biomedical Engineering" search phrase were downloaded and textually analysed to identify the mentioned technical skills, generic skills and the adjectives used to describe the required level of proficiency in them. Results of the analysis of these adverts, using qualitative research analysis software starts to reveal a relevant technical skills hierarchy that Higher Education can use to help inform curricular designed for this employment pathway. The analysis of the generic skills reveals those rated important by employers for different levels of jobs, again of potential use to curriculum designers.

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Learning project management skills through game programming

Baras¹,

Chollet²,

Martin³

2017

2017 27th EAEEIE Annual Conference (EAEEIE)

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Simultaneous development of management skills and behaviours in taught academic programmes

Cited by 6 publications

References 4 publications

Using job advertisements to inform curricula design for the key global technical challenges

Using job advertisements to inform curricula design for the key global technical challenges

What do job adverts tell Higher Education about the ‘shape’ of Biomedical Engineering Graduates?

Learning project management skills through game programming

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