Researcher Ross Finnie recently wrote in the Ottawa Citizen that the most important thing to teach in post-secondary education – in order to make the investment pay off as far as graduates’ employability is concerned – is “to better understand the more general skill sets that open a range of employment opportunities and career paths over time.” And what is he talking about? Transferable skills such as critical thinking, teamwork and numeracy.
These transferable skills are just as important, if not more so, for international students as there is a cutural dimension to these skills and a lack of awareness and competency will set them even further back.
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