The Dilemmas of Teaching and Assessing Soft Skills and their Implications for Quality of University Graduates in Tanzania

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2019-09Abstract
The qualifications that matter most for this century are
ostensibly
related to the demonstrated
mastery of essential compet
encies
referred to as
soft skills
.
Studying academic content ought
not to be the goal but rather the means for developing these soft skills. Accordingly, in
today
’
s globalised world, what matters is no longer how much you know, but what you can
do with wha
t you know. Unfortunately, systematic formal teaching and the assessment of soft
skills in the classroom is quite rare in most cases. This paper draws several findings, mainly
from
e
xploratory content analysis as corroborated with thematic analysis of semi
-
structured
in
-
depth interview responses
extracted from eight university lecturers and then transcribed
verbatim.// Paper ID 36
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