Generic Skills

Involves problem solving, planning and making decisions in a small group including using the skills of communication, appreciation, negotiation, making compromises and asserting leadership. Students with these skills will be able to effectively engage in and contribute to tasks involving teamwork.

• Communication Skills

• Critical Thinking Skills

• Creativity

• Collaboration Skills

Comprises essential life skills and desirable personal qualities such as maintaining emotional stability, making decisions and exercising self-discipline which enables students to embrace challenges encountered on a personal or team basis.

• Problem Solving Skills

• Self-learning Skills

• Self-management Skills

• Collaboration Skills

The abilities to achieve the desired outcomes or goals in a process where two or more people interact through expressing or receiving messages using verbal and non-verbal means.

• Collaboration Skills

• Self-management Skills

• Communication Skills

• Creativity

Refers to the ability to initiate, plan, carry out, evaluate and adjust learning activities autonomously. Students can select or design effective strategies for in-depth learning. These skills help students enhance their academic performance and self-efficacy and form the core part of lifelong learning and help students acquire new knowledge to adapt to the fast changing world.

• Self-management Skills

• Self-learning Skills

• Problem Solving Skills

• Information Technology Skills

The ability to perform computations and estimations of numbers in various forms, to describe spatial relationships between objects, to perform measurements, to manage data, to employ logical reasoning for drawing valid conclusions, and to apply concepts in different contexts.

• Information Technology Skills

• Problem Solving Skills

• Mathematical Skills

• Critical Thinking Skills

Involves using various skills to resolve a difficulty. The process includes investigating the problem, synthesising information and generating ideas to determine the best course of action. Students need to adjust and evaluate strategies, as well as consolidate experience for knowledge construction.

• Mathematical Skills

• Information Technology Skills

• Critical Thinking Skills

• Problem Solving Skills

The ability to search, select, analyse, manage, and share information in a critical manner which facilitates collaborative learning, problem-solving and self-directed learning.

• Self-learning Skills

• Problem Solving Skills

• Critical Thinking Skills

• Information Technology Skills

Drawing out meaning from available data or statements, and examining and questioning their accuracy and credibility in order to establish one’s views and evaluate the arguments put forward by oneself and others.

• Information Technology Skills

• Critical Thinking Skills

• Problem Solving Skills

• Self-management Skills

Brings in changes or transformations and is manifested in new ideas, acts or products. It emerges spontaneously or through deliberate processes of divergent and convergent thinking. It involves the integration of general or domain-specific knowledge for a meaningful purpose.

• Communication Skills

• Critical Thinking Skills

• Creativity

• Collaboration Skills