Education for Future Skills Development: Cognitive, Collaborative and Ethical Skills

This chapter focuses on the cognitive, collaborative, and ethical skills that the future higher education student will need to acquire to meet the skills wanted for the future. It explores learning methods that may be of interest in this field. The encouragement of reflective practice will encompass the competencies that will help to make sense of new concepts and policies underpinning good critical thinking. This will lend itself to the student gaining a competency level to drive efficient and effective decision making, thus ultimately contributing to society. The students themselves, through a thirst for knowledge and skills, will become self-directed learners, and learn how to work collaboratively with colleagues, all of which is essential for the Future Skills society. Based on two case studies, the chapter illustrates how the students develop their Future Skills and connect their learning experiences to explore various opportunities, whilst thinking and working in an ethical manner, adhering to a code of practice.