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7.9 Relative to usage, the generic skills were
less well developed than the chemical
knowledge/skills within degree programmes.
This is highlighted in terms of ‘Development
deficits’, which were highest for ‘Time
management and organisational skills’, followed
by ‘Oral presentation skills’ and ‘Team-working
skills’.
7.10 Graduates would have liked more
opportunity in their undergraduates degrees to
develop ‘Oral presentation skills’ in particular.
This is followed by ‘Planning and design of
experiments’, ‘Skills with chemical
instrumentation’, ‘Analytical techniques’, ‘Time
management and organisational skills’, ‘Report
writing skills’, ‘Numeracy and computational
skills’ and ‘Interpretation of experimental data’.
7.11 Graduates who were studying for PhDs
would have liked more opportunity in their
undergraduate degrees to develop ‘Planning and
design of experiments’, followed by ‘Oral
presentation skills’, ‘Skills with chemical
instrumentation’, ‘Interpretation of
experimental data’, ‘Analytical techniques’,
’Numeracy and computational skills’,
‘Information retrieval skills’ and’ Independent
learning ability’.
7.12 The open form answers provide a useful
source of information for degree programme
development.
... graduates who were studying for
PhDs would have liked more
opportunity in their undergraduate
degrees to develop ‘Planning and design
of experiments’