Essential skills and generic skills in the National Qualifications Framework

Corporate author:
New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA)

Abstract:

This booklet discusses the concepts of essential and generic skills and gives background information on why there is a need to debate related issues. Ways in which other countries are giving emphasis to the same range of skills are examined. Many issues are raised and, in the final section, four options for recognising essential skills in the National Qualifications Framework are presented.

Subjects: Skills and knowledge

Keywords: Basic skill; Transferable skill

Geographic subjects: Oceania; New Zealand

Published: Wellington, New Zealand: New Zealand Qualifications Authority, 1993

Physical description: 32 p.

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ISBN: 0908927428

Resource type: Guide

Call Number:
TD/NZ 45.51