Comparing UK and Malaysian UG students' development of social and emotional competences

What is it about?

A lot of UG curriculum underplays the development of social and emotional competences as essential attributes in 'life skills' development. The research compares UG and Malaysian UG students in the Business and Management areas; assessing their social and emotional competences and making suggestions how the results, based on gender and cultural differences, can both aid in predicting student performance and employability

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Why is it important?

The results tend to confirm the view that competences are perhaps more reliable predictors of performance than personality traits. The uniqueness is in applying this to an Undergraduate setting where the development of social and emotional competences amongst students have tended to be underplayed in academic curriculum