"The greatest way to learn something is to teach it; you really get tested."
Dr Andrea Sella, Dept of Chemistry
Key skills
Key skills such as communication, numeracy and literacy are vital to a good all-round student experience. They help students make the transition from school to university, cope with academic work, enjoy extracurricular activities and enhance their career prospects.
UCL provides a number of resources to develop these skills for taught and research students. A dedicated Key Skills website has been designed to help taught students and their personal tutors plan and record their skills development in a systematic way. A Key skills grid maps out the type of help available for each specific skill, from budgeting to time management.
For research students, the Graduate School runs a comprehensive Skills Development programme, and a research student log to record their progress.
The Personal Tutors website also gives staff help on key skills development.
UCL is introducing the HEAR system (Higher Education Achievement Record) to new undergraduates from the 2011-12 academic session to provide more detailed information about a student's learning and achievement beyond the traditional degree. Activities such as sports participation and leadership of clubs and volunteering will develop students’ key skills and be recorded on their HEAR.
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