Project management education programmes are often proposed in higher education to give students competences in project planning (Gantt’s chart), project organizing, human and technical resource management, quality control and also social competences (collaboration, communication), emotional ones (empathy, consideration of the other, humour, ethics), and organizational ones (leadership, politica...

Core competences or capabilities are characterized in an almost exclusive affirmative way. Even if the perils of path dependence and core rigidity are acknowledged to some extent, the flip side of core competences is not really reflected in the well-established concepts. The paper focuses on such shortcomings accompanying the one-sided affirmative conceptualizations and tries to develop a more ...

In Europe and elsewhere, there is increasing interest in competence-based education (CBE) and training for professional practice in healthcare. This review presents competences for pharmacy practice in Europe and compares them with those for medicine and dentistry. Comparisons amongst competence frameworks were made by matching the European Directive for Professional Qualifications in sectoral ...

Effective teams are crucial for organisations, especially in environments that require teams to be constantly created and dismantled, such as software development, scientific experiments, crowd-sourcing, or the classroom. Key factors influencing team performance are competences and personality of team members. Hence, we present a computational model to compose proficient and congenial teams bas...

BACKGROUND Cognitive behavioural interventions are effective in the treatment of chronic fatigue, chronic fatigue syndrome (sometimes known as ME or CFS/ME) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Such interventions are increasingly being provided not only in specialist settings but in primary care settings such as Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services. There are no existing c...

This paper outlines research into the emotional competences that mature, higher education students, undertaking part-time blended learning degrees within a School of Education, value in their tutors. A mixed methods approach was adopted to conduct a detailed exploration of eight tutors’ practice whilst teaching a module, with data gathered from three principal sources. Learners’ perceptions of ...

In this work we have compared the self-perceived competences of future chemistry teachers who are pursuing teacher training courses in all regions Brazil taking following factors into account: sex, age and Brazilian region origin. A quantitative exploration was adopted data were collected using Self-Perceived Competences Teachers Initial Chemistry Training (SPCTICT) instrument, composed 21 item...

This article draws on Trans-Atlantic and Pacific Project (TAPP) collaborations (e.g., [Arnó, 14] [Vandepitte, 16]) to show how students in already-existing technical communication classes can join other realistic transnational projects through ICT thereby acquire enhance various types of transversal competences necessary students’ future performance a globalized workplace.

An important aspect in multi-agent cognitive systems is being able to provide negotiation facilities to agents. In this article we deal with this problem by presenting a formal environment allowing to specify preferences. Moreover, our framework describes how to perform exchanges among the entities involved in the system. The exchanges are not restricted to material goods, as we introduce capab...

ion Organiser n Accuracy Methodical way of working Planning and organizing Interpersoonlijk Communicative competence Sensitivity and empathy