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average importance for 2nd cycle
4.00
3.75
3.50
3.25
3.00
2.75
General Jobs
ACADEMIC PERCEPTION OF IMPORTANCE OF
COMPETENCES: 1st versus 2nd cycle
Frontier research
Specific Comm. Skill
Managing skills
Updating skills
Applied Jobs
Interdisciplinary ability
Human/Professional Skill
Foreign Languages
Ethical awareness
Absolute standards
Modelling & Prob. Solv.
Fig.1
1st versus 2nd cycle competences.
The dashed lines show the average values in each cycle
Problem solving
Modelling Literature search
Theoretical understanding
Learning ability
Mathematical skills
Basic&Applied Res Deep knowledge
Prob.Solv.& Comp. Skills.
Experimental skill
Physics culture
2.50
Teaching
1.75 2.00 2.25 2.50 2.75 3.00 3.25 3.50
average importance for 1st cycle
The lower right quadrant indicates a «peculiar» priority of the
1 st cycle, i.e. the development of a «general culture in physics». This
indication is quite understandable in itself, since the graduate might
then directly go to the job market, without further contacts with the
university.
On the other end the upper left quadrant indicates «peculiar»
priorities of the 2 nd cycle. Such a peculiarity is reinforced by the high
gap, which is exhibited by the involved competences (see Table 4) and
which shows that the development of these competences is mainly a
task for the second cycle.
Finally the lower left quadrant hosts those 9 competences, which
are rated below the average in both cycles, thus enjoying a low
priority in the Academics perception. They seem to be «minor» or
«complementary» competences, rather than «basic» ones. In section
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