The Graduate Skills Policy was revised in 2010.
Higher Education institutions seek to go beyond the purely vocational skill and develop a far greater number, and wider range of skills implicitly rather than explicitly. The skills explicitly developed are a combination of basic communication skills, cognitive skills, ICT skills and subject-specific skills. By contrast, the types of skills implicitly developed include skills of personal development and management and social skills such as creativity, flexibility and networking.
In seeking to integrate skills development with academic content, the Graduate Skills Strategy describes an embedded approach where Graduate Skills are made explicit through awareness, articulation and advancement from the beginning of students' programmes of study. Support is available through planned academic strategies and supported-self-study resources in an integrated way. Students are also encouraged to engage with activities outside of the taught programme to link their work and everyday lives.
The University Graduate Skills website |is a resource for students and staff. It supports students with the acquisition of academic, study, information and IT skills whilst providing staff with a reference when building graduate skills into their teaching.