In 2007, the DIT Academic Council approved a recommendation that ‘all programmes will provide students with a
range of opportunities to develop, practice and be assessed on an agreed range of key employability skills or
graduate attributes.’ In order that all graduates leave with an agreed set of key skills for employability, it was felt
that it would be necessary for DIT to identify a set of desired generic skills. These have now been agreed. The
following templates provide a framework for programme teams to consider skills development across a
programme
Engaged
To what degree, and on what basis, do you feel that this
graduate attribute describes graduates from this
programme?
In what way are students given the opportunity to
develop and demonstrate this attribute within this
programme (please identify modules, learning
outcomes, learning activities, assessments as
appropriate)?
In what way could this attribute be further embedded
or made explicit in your programme?
Enterprising
To what degree, and on what basis, do you feel that this
graduate attribute describes graduates from this
programme?
In what way are students given the opportunity to
develop and demonstrate this attribute within this
programme (please identify modules, learning
outcomes, learning activities, assessments as
appropriate)?
In what way could this attribute be further embedded
or made explicit in your programme?
Enquiry-Based
To what degree, and on what basis, do you feel that this
graduate attribute describes graduates from this
programme?
In what way are students given the opportunity to
develop and demonstrate this attribute within this
programme (please identify modules, learning
outcomes, learning activities, assessments as
appropriate)?
In what way could this attribute be further embedded
or made explicit in your programme?
Effective
To what degree, and on what basis, do you feel that this
graduate attribute describes graduates from this
programme?
In what way are students given the opportunity to
develop and demonstrate this attribute within this
programme (please identify modules, learning
outcomes, learning activities, assessments as
appropriate)?
In what way could this attribute be further embedded
or made explicit in your programme?
Expert ( within a subject discipline
To what degree, and on what basis, do you feel that this
graduate attribute describes graduates from this
programme?
In what way are students given the opportunity to
develop and demonstrate this attribute within this
programme (please identify modules, learning
outcomes, learning activities, assessments as
appropriate)?
In what way could this attribute be further embedded
or made explicit in your programme?