In a world of increasing change and disruption, what skills are needed to succeed in life and at work today? Outside of technical hard skills, critical life skills are more important than ever.
Key life skills are broadly categorised by the Ministry of Education, Singapore, into three groups: cognition, character or citizenship and community. Examples of important cognition life skills include innovation and critical thinking, while examples of character life skills include self-awareness and mental resilience as well as personal effectiveness. As for citizenship and community life skills, these include interpersonal and collaboration skills, communication, as well as having a global mindset.
As part of our mission to prepare students to be future-ready and resilient to thrive years beyond the university, a focus on life skills is weaved across the various courses, programmes and content developed by NUS Centre for Future-ready Graduates.
Learn more about our programmes and resources here.
Additional Resources
Access resources on life skills anytime, anywhere by heading to our digital career resource library.