I think it is completely understandable that people who that say here to four have been specialists and experts in specific STEM disciplines, let's say astrophysics or whatever the case is. And yet we're trying to ensure that all students are developing a level of certain level of competence in these transversal skills,. We have to have some flexibility, but also we have to have transparency and consistency underpinning it. That has been a real genuine challenge that we've been working with. These things are hard, but we're doing them because they're necessary because the world and higher education is changing.
Ciarán Dunne shares about the transformative power of transversal skills on episode 464 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
When students come back to campus, what are we offering them that they can’t get otherwise?
-Ciarán Dunne
How can we help students thrive in an unscripted world?
-Ciarán Dunne
Transversal skills are skills all students should have regardless of what program they are in.
-Ciarán Dunne