The Importance of Soft Skills for University Students in the 21st Century

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anh Thi Van Pham ◽  
Huong Thi Thu Dao
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Soft Skills

scholarly journals A study on English communication skills at tertiary level

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huynh Ngoc Anh Thu
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
University Students ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Study Participants

Communication skills are one of the most important soft skills in the 21st century. There is a sad fact that even young Vietnamese, although learning English as an official subject at school, almost always show a lack of confidence when communicating with foreigners. Many high school graduates or even university students, when meeting foreigners, teach-ers or speaking in front of the class, still can not say anything more than simple questions such as greetings and introducing themselves. This study was conducted by the Ho Chi Minh City University of Food Industry (HUFI). With the participation of 120 students. Through the questionnaire. This study was for the purpose of indicating the errors that students make, as well as finding solutions that support their skills to learn and improve their ability to communicate. The results of this study showed the participation of 120 students. Only 50 out of 120 students received good reviews in the research, 45 students still lack skills and confidence when communicating and received an average rating. The rest of the 120 study participants were rated as weak, lacking a lot of communication skills. This condition needs to be interested in, as if not even when communicating with Vietnamese in English, you will lack confidence.

Development of Entrepreneurship in Universities

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-48
Author(s):  
Jovanna Nathalie Cervantes-Guzmán
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
University Students ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Student Relationships ◽  
Concrete Experience ◽  
Professional Student

It is necessary for university students to be trained with real cases so that they experience experiential learning, where they have a concrete experience and learn from it. Integrating training, education, and soft skills arm them with the necessary tools to develop an entrepreneurial intention. This will be done by training multidisciplinary work using business models adapted to teaching entrepreneurship. Thus, achieving avoids drifting talent trained in universities, which does not find a stimulus to knowledge to achieve the development of their venture. It should be provided from schoolwork that can lead to potential businesses, through the association of different university careers to generate and enhance multidisciplinary professional student-student relationships.

scholarly journals Modern Trends in Scenic Genres as the Subject of Study in the Course of History of Variety and Jazz Music (Using the Example of the Rock Opera “The Legend of Xentaron”)

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-108
Author(s):  
Oksana N. Beznisko ◽  
Diana S. Karbulyan
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Mixed Form ◽  
Jazz Music ◽  
History Of ◽  
Metal Group ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Performing Art ◽  
Rock Opera

The work explores the interaction of the structure and content of the modern musical and scenic genre, rock opera. On the basis of the rock opera “The Legend of Xentaron” staged by “Epidemic”, a Russian power metal group, authors show characteristics of the rock opera of the 21st century, performing and instrumental structure, other components of the new musical and scenic action influencing the listener, the trend of influence of a genre of a fantasy on characteristic stylistic features of a genre of a rock opera is considered. The authors pay special attention to the analysis of dramaturgy in the rock opera “The Legend of Xentaron”, on the basis of which it is characterized as a mixed form, synthesizing the techniques of conflict and epic dramaturgy. At the same time, they revealed both typical and already traditional features for this musical stage genre, as well as modern trends in its evolution. This refers to such new features as: serial, formulas, stereotyping, replicability. The inclusion of the results in the study of “History of variety and jazz music” will help university students to get an idea about new trends in development of the phenomena of performing art, styles, genres, directions and the repertoire in the field of vocal and instrumental variety and jazz music.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Social Capital and Soft Skills among University Students

2021 ◽  
pp. 40-46
Author(s):  
Mohd Mahzan Awang ◽  
Jalal Deen Careemdeen
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
University Students ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Social Capital Theory ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Soft Skill ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Significant Difference

This study aims at identifying the level of social capital to improve soft skills among university students in Malaysia. Social capital construct based on Putnam's [1] social capital theory. Social capital in this research refers to students' participation in community-based activities and university's clubs. Soft skills construct included university students' communication, leadership, teamwork, continuous learning, critical thinking, ethics and professionalism, and entrepreneurship skills. This study is a survey research design using a questionnaire instrument for data collection. The sample was chosen randomly, participating in a total of 264 university students in Malaysia. The study used descriptive analyses such as mean, standard deviation, t-test, and Pearson Correlation to analyze the data. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 23 was used for the data analysis The findings of study demonstrated that the majority of university students had moderate levels of both constructs, namely social capital and soft skills. Results from this study revealed that there was no significant difference in social capital based on Gender. However, the results of the study found there is a significant difference in soft skills based on Gender. Accordingly,' it has been found that male students had a higher soft skill compared to female students. Correlation analysis demonstrated that there was a significant positive relationship between social capital and soft skills. Overall, this study suggests the importance of social capital towards soft skills development.

scholarly journals Investigation of Self-Efficacy Perceptions Regarding the 21st Century Skills of University Students Enrolled in Different Faculties

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aylin Mentiş Köksoy ◽  
İskender Daşdemir
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
21St Century Skills ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
The One ◽  
Media And Technology

The 21st-century skills are considered to be needed by individuals in a changing world. The aim of this research study is to determine whether or not the self-efficacy perceptions of students enrolled in the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Literature, and the Faculty of Nursing (health) pertaining to the 21st-century skills cause any difference among the faculties. The population of the research is comprise of 1,056 students, 841 females and 215 males, at Ege University during the fall semester of the 2018-2019 academic year. “21st Century Skills Self-efficacy Perception” scale, which has 3 subdimensions such as “Learning and Renewal (LR) Skills,” “Life and Career (LC) Skills,” and “Information, Media and Technology (IMT) Skills,” is utilized in the study. The research study is designed in accordance with the causal-comparative model. In the data analysis, independent groups t-test is performed to detect differences in terms of gender, whereas the one-way analysis of variance) techniques are conducted to detect differences in terms of faculties. The margin of error is determined as .05 in the study. No significant difference is detected in the LR skills of university students in terms of the gender variable. It is found that a significant difference exists according to gender in the subdimension of LC skills. No significant difference is observed according to gender variable in the subdimension of IMT skills of university students. According to this result, the LC skills of female students are detected to be higher than that of male students. It is observed that the LR skills of the students in the faculty of education are higher than that of the students in the faculty of health sciences. It is determined that a significant difference exists in the LC skills of university students according to the faculty of education variable. It is determined that the LC skills of the students in both the faculties of education and literature are higher than that of the students in the faculty of health sciences. Furthermore, it is determined that the IMT skills of the students in the faculty of education and the faculty of literature are higher than that of the students in the faculty of health sciences.

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