Keele’s Graduate Attributes
The ten Keele Graduate Attributes make students’ achievements explicit and provide our graduates with a common language to articulate their abilities and understanding to non-discipline audiences. Students will be encouraged to write a portfolio reflecting on their personal and professional development throughout their time at Keele and detailing how they have developed their graduate attributes.
Keele Students will have the opportunity to develop:
- an open and questioning approach to ideas, demonstrating curiosity, independence of thought and the ability to appreciate a range of perspectives on the natural and social worlds
- an appreciation of the development and value of your chosen subjects of study, awareness of their contexts, the links between them, and awareness of the provisional and dynamic nature of knowledge
- information literacy: the ability to locate, evaluate and synthesise large amounts of frequently conflicting information, ideas and data
- the ability creatively to solve problems using a range of different approaches and techniques, and to determine which techniques are appropriate for the issue at hand
- an appreciation of the social, environmental and global implications of your studies and other activities, including recognition of any ethical implications
- the ability to communicate clearly and effectively in written and verbal forms for different purposes and to a variety of audiences
- the knowledge, skills, self-confidence and self-awareness actively to pursue your future goals
- the ability and motivation to participate responsibly and collaboratively as an active citizen in the communities in which you live and work
- a professional and reflective approach, including qualities of leadership, responsibility, personal integrity, empathy, care and respect for others, accountability and self-regulation
- the flexibility to thrive in rapidly changing and uncertain external environments and to update skills and knowledge as circumstances require.
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