Meta-skills for a meta world.

Cargill, Erica

Abstract

Graduate apprenticeships (GAs) in Scotland were designed with a specific intention to meet the future skill needs of the Scottish economy. Working with Scottish employers, the funding body (Skills Development Scotland) produced a meta-skills framework which aimed to underpin both course content and pedagogy. The ultimate aim of the framework was that graduates of GA courses would be sufficiently prepared to tackle the 'grand challenges' inherent in Scotland's future economic landscape as well as being sufficiently skilled to take their own careers forward into an ever more complex future beyond graduation. This research showcase presentation will explore how Aberdeen Business School (Robert Gordon University) has embedded both the delivery and assessment of the meta-skills framework within its Graduate Apprenticeship degrees in both Business Management and Accounting. The presentation will focus on how effective pedagogy can help prepare graduates for a volatile, unknown, and increasingly global future. We will focus on the theory of evaluative judgement, in considering how students can be developed not only to deliver quality work-based evidence but to assess the quality of their work and the work of others into a future long beyond graduation.

Citation

CARGILL, E. 2023. Meta-skills for a meta-world. In Siva-Jothy, D. (ed.) 30th ASET annual conference 2023 (ASET 2023): proceedings of the 2023 Placement and employability professionals' annual conference: developing local to global citizens, 5-6 September 2023, Bath, UK. Sheffield: ASET [online], pages 57-58. Available from: https://www.asetonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2023-ASET-Conference-Proceedings.pdf

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 30th ASET annual conference 2023
• Start Date: Sep 5, 2023
• End Date: Sep 6, 2023
• Acceptance Date: Apr 8, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Sep 6, 2023
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2023
• Deposit Date: Jun 4, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 7, 2025
• Publisher: ASET The Work Based Learning and Placement Learning Association
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 57-58
• ISBN: 9781739353414
• Keywords: Graduate apprenticeships (GAs); Meta-skills frameworks; Economic landscapes; Business management; Accounting; Scotland; UK
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/2308249
• Publisher URL: https://www.asetonline.org/conference-proceedings/