In a recent column on the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario’s blog, researcher Sarah Brumwell points out that the recent attention to character education in the K-12 sector should be a lesson to the post-secondary sector. Post-secondary institutions are increasingly seeing their function as being to prepare students for the workforce, and therefore they must focus more attention on the transferable skills – such as teamwork and critical thinking – that are key to success in the workplace.
Take a look at the blog post and then, if you are further convinced of the need to teach these transferable skills, take a look here.