Job requires skill’s says Expert
10-Feb-2010 08:16 AM
Seventy per cent of jobs would need post secondary education, an education expert said at the Final Dissemination Event of EDULINK-Sidecap project the University of the South Pacific in Suva.
Tony Bates, who has worked on e-learning projects with various universities, said there had been a big growth in the number of knowledge-based jobs.
Speaking via a video-conferencing link from the University of British Columbia in Canada where it was 2pm Sunday, Bates the skills demanded on jobs today would include good communication skills, independent learning, ethics and responsibility, team work, flexibility, thinking skills and navigation.
He also urged lecturers to improve their assessments of students, which should not be restricted to cognitive skills only but on the knowledge of the students and how well they could apply information.
The SideCAP project is a European Union-funded project as part of its ACP-EU Co-operation Program in Higher Education (Edulink). SideCAP stands for Staff Improvement in Distance Education for Carribean, African and Pacific Universities.
The five universities involved in the project are Open University of United Kingdom, University of the Highlands and Islands Millenium Institute (UHI), Scotland, University of Mauritius, University of the West Indies and the South Pacific.
By ARIETA DAROKO |
