Abstract
Educators are increasingly aware of the pivotal role that soft skills play in making sure students are adequately prepared to initiate collegiate education. Soft skills will be increasingly vital ingredient for success in postsecondary education and are very important for all students that need to develop their potential while in school. Soft skills are a valuable component and is a vital factor impacting the chances of student success in collegiate education. This indicates the importance and necessity of acquiring soft skills for the students while studying at schools. In this paper, five areas of soft skills namely communication skills, decision making and problem-solving skills, time management skills, teamwork and interpersonal skills , cultural competency skills are explored in an effort to find out the Soft-skills gap among secondary students in UAE . Though there are many other types of skills, the skills mentioned do provide a glimpse of the types of skills required for postsecondary success. The identified soft-skills gap need to be addressed rigorously to put the students in the higher trajectory for post-secondary success Keywords: Soft skills; Gap Analysis, secondary education; postsecondary success DOI : 10.7176/JLPG/89-05 Publication date :September 30 th 2019
Highlights
1.Introductions Soft skills are important to enhance the level of students' success as well as help them to succeed in college level as well as social and personal life
The UAE Knowledge agenda 2021 aims to equip students with high-order thinking skills in creativity, analysis, problem solving and developing information into knowledge capital to be distributed and used again(World bank,2012).We agree with the previous studies (Claxton,2006) that not all students are adept to resources that contribute to skills needed for successful completion of university education but can be a subject of gradual and systematic cultivation. . 2
In this paper, five areas of soft skills are explored in an effort to find out the Soft-skills gap among randomly surveyed secondary students in UAE
Summary
1.Introductions Soft skills are important to enhance the level of students' success as well as help them to succeed in college level as well as social and personal life. Rao (2012) in his article explained soft skills as “polite and pleasing ways of presenting to others and are mostly related to personality, attitude and behavior ” He further refined soft skills as a collection of skills and abilities relevant to communication, managing time, problem solving, negotiating, writing, listening, reading and decision-making. The UAE Knowledge agenda 2021 aims to equip students with high-order thinking skills in creativity, analysis, problem solving and developing information into knowledge capital to be distributed and used again(World bank,2012).We agree with the previous studies (Claxton,2006) that not all students are adept to resources that contribute to skills needed for successful completion of university education but can be a subject of gradual and systematic cultivation. Secondary objective is to understand the factors that hinder secondary students’ ability to acquire soft skills in readiness for university education
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