Alan Harrison looks at how universities can better prepare and showcase students’ skills for the workplace in this research document from the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario. Harrison, the former provost and vice-principal (academic) at Queen’s University, argues that traditional credentials and transcripts convey students’ knowledge of content, but not their level of skill. He states, “Universities should accept that it is their responsibility to prepare their students for the workplace, which means they have to come to terms with the fact that content is actually the vehicle for skill development. Having helped the student to develop the skills, the universities also need to ensure that there is good evidence to support the claim that this skill development has occurred.”
http://www.heqco.ca/SiteCollectionDocuments/Formatted_Skills%20Competencies%20and%20Credentials.pdf