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Table 2.24: Industry perception of graduate attributesPersonal Skills Interpersonal Skills Technical Knowledge& SkillsSystemic-thinkingskillsCollaborative skills Information abstraction, representation,and organisationProblem-solving skillsCritical-thinking skillsCommunication skills(oral, written, listening,and group)Enterprise computing architecturesand delivery systemsConcepts of information and systemsdistributionRisk-taking skills Conflict resolutionskillsPersonal-disciplineskillsPersistenceCuriosityHuman behavior and computerinteractionDynamics of changeProcess management and systemsdevelopmentSome Information Systems domainknowledgeUse of computing tools to applyknowledgeICF-2000The IFIP/UNESCO Informatics Curriculum Framework 2000 (ICF-2000) offers an informaticscurriculum framework at tertiary level, from which various curriculum implementationscan be constructed. The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) was requestedby UNESCO to undertake this project on its behalf. IFIP’s Technical Committee 3(on Education) developed the framework, which includes of the following entities:categories of professionals ICF-2000 recognises eight different professional categories (ofwhich three are professionals with a major in informatics) and four different graduateprofiles (BIP (Basic Instrumental I-Profile), BCP (Basic Conceptual I-Profile), MIP(MInor I-Profile) and MAP (MAjor I-Profile) .The size of the graduate profiles is‘measured’ in terms of credit points: 1 credit point equals one working day (= about 8hours of study). Informatics-major I-Workers are categorised as• operational (C1) – have a thorough understanding of and well-developed skills ininformatics as a broad discipline, more specifically in the area of exploitation, con-91