caa a22 4500 605464480 CHVBK 20210128100258.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10499-014-9843-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10499-014-9843-x Generic skills needs for graduate employment in the aquaculture, fisheries and related sectors in Europe [Elektronische Daten] [Cristina Pita, Margaret Eleftheriou, Jaime Fernández-Borrás, Susana Gonçalves, Eleni Mente, M. Santos, Sónia Seixas, Graham Pierce] There is an increasing demand for highly skilled workers in all advanced industrialised economies. Although most jobs require occupation-specific skills to carry them out, it is widely recognised that generic skills are ever more needed by job seekers, to increase job opportunities and maintain employability; this applies to all sectors of the economy, from selling cars to undertaking marine research. Several recent European Union strategy documents emphasise the importance of generic skills. However, the apparent mismatch between the skills sets that employers seek and that job seekers offer remains a major challenge. This paper focuses on perceptions of and attitudes to generic skills training for university graduates intending to gain employment in aquaculture, fisheries or other marine sectors and presents the results of a survey administered to academics, industry representatives, students (at different stages of their academic career) and graduates. The various respondents regarded most of the 39 generic skills under investigation as important, with none classified as unimportant. However, students undertaking different types of degree (i.e. B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D.) prioritized different generic skills and the level of importance ascribed to generic skills training increased as students progressed in their university careers. On the other hand, university staff and other employers were fairly consistent in their choice of the most important generic skills. We argue that there remains a need to place generic skills and employability attributes and attitudes at the centre of the higher education curriculum. Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2014 Aquaculture nationallicence Employability nationallicence Fisheries nationallicence Generic skills nationallicence Marine nationallicence Vocational nationallicence CV : Curriculum Vitae nationallicence EC : European Commission nationallicence EQF : European Qualifications Framework nationallicence ESCO : European Skills/Competences Qualifications and Occupations nationallicence EU : European Union nationallicence HEIs : Higher Education Institutions nationallicence VET : Vocational Education and Training nationallicence Pita Cristina Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK aut Eleftheriou Margaret AQUALEX Multimedia Consortium (AMC) Ltd, Dublin, Ireland aut Fernández-Borrás Jaime Department of Physiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain aut Gonçalves Susana Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal aut Mente Eleni Department of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment, School of Agricultural Environment, University of Thessaly, Vólos, Greece aut Santos M. Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo, Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO), Vigo, Spain aut Seixas Sónia Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal aut Pierce Graham Department of Biology and Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal aut Aquaculture International Springer International Publishing 23/3(2015-06-01), 767-786 0967-6120 23:3<767 2015 23 10499 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10499-014-9843-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10499-014-9843-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pita Cristina Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Eleftheriou Margaret AQUALEX Multimedia Consortium (AMC) Ltd, Dublin, Ireland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fernández-Borrás Jaime Department of Physiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gonçalves Susana Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mente Eleni Department of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment, School of Agricultural Environment, University of Thessaly, Vólos, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Santos M. Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo, Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO), Vigo, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Seixas Sónia Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pierce Graham Department of Biology and Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Aquaculture International Springer International Publishing 23/3(2015-06-01), 767-786 0967-6120 23:3<767 2015 23 10499