Beyond knowledge, beyond skills by Margaret L Ruwoldt Australia's technological universities are looking for ways to ensure their graduates are prepared for anything the twenty-first century can throw at them. .
Education involves more than knowledge, technical skills or analytical ability.
Today's students tomorrow's graduates will typically go through six or seven career or job changes in their working lives. To act effectively and appropriately in new or unfamiliar situations, they will need to synthesise their university learning with other personal capabilities in ways we can hardly imagine. The challenge for educators is finding ways to teach those generic capabilities. Together the ATN members teach about one-fifth of all university students in Australia. To be trained to do something is not sufficient.