Competency-Based Education– Neither a Panacea nor a Pariah
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It is common for Australian university academics to be critical of competency-based education systems. The values that underpin a competency-based approach and those on which traditional university education have been based are often seen to be at odds. A focus on the development of prescribed workplace skills is seen by many academics to be inconsistent with a focus on the general development of the mind. Not surprisingly, we found in an Australian study a few years ago (Bowden and Masters 1993, pp 100—102) that more than half the academics expressed negative views about a competency-based approach to university education on the grounds that such an approach is too narrow and conformist. Yet nearly 80% of those same academics indicated that they had had no experience of a competency-based approach and nearly 60% acknowledged that they had little or no knowledge of what a competency-based approach to education is about.
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