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Key skills - A capability perspective

Date: 04-06-1998

Capability is a necessary part of specialist expertise, not separate from it, and the best way to help students become more capable, argues the author, is to give them more responsibility for managing their own learning.

This chapter from the unpublished book 'Key Skills in HE?' (1998) from the Capability archives explores some definitions of capability, and describes the underlying qualities essential for the successful application of skills. Historically, higher education has helped students to acquire specialist knowledge and skills which are either discipline based, vocationally oriented or a mixture of the two. John Stephenson, then the director of Higher Education for Capability, argues that a capability approach emphasising active and autonomous learning can improve the quality of both.

John Stephenson

Tim Challis

HEC, Leeds

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