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Graduate Attributes (GAS)

My general comments on the notion of graduate attribute

List defining graduate attributes from the Quality Enhancement Theme

For the purpose of the Theme, the types of attributes and skills that the work will focus on are described below.

At undergraduate level

• Critical understanding
• Informed by current developments in the subject
• An awareness of the provisional nature of knowledge, how knowledge is created, advanced and renewed, and the excitement of changing knowledge
• The ability to identify and analyse problems and issues and to formulate, evaluate and apply evidence based solutions and arguments
• An ability to apply a systematic and critical assessment of complex problems and issues
• An ability to deploy techniques of analysis and enquiry
• Familiarity with advanced techniques and skills
• Originality and creativity in formulating, evaluating and applying evidence-based solutions and arguments
• An understanding of the need for a high level of ethical, social, cultural, environmental and wider professional conduct.

And at Master’s level

• Conceptual understanding that enables critical evaluation of current research and advanced scholarship
• Originality in the application of knowledge
• The ability to deal with complex issues and make sound judgments in the absence of complete data.

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