Student employability enhancement through fieldwork: purposefully integrated or a beneficial side effect?

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Table 1. The transferable and technical skills explicitly identified in interviews, in programme specifications and in field-course handbooks. The table shows how many module specifications, handbooks and interviews each skill was explicitly stated in.

Skill type	Skills identified	Module specifications	Teaching materials	Interviews
Technical skills	Species Identification	4	4	2
	Field techniques	11	9	10
	Using specialist equipment or software	2	2	3
	Application of disciplinary knowledge	11	6	7
‘Hybrid’ skills	Analysis	11	4	6
	Critical analysis	9	4	1
	Oral presentation	9	1	4
	Project design and execution	9	5	8
	Written reporting	9	3	5
	Working safely and ethically	4	1	2
	Data collection	2	4	0
	Numeracy or statistics	2	2	2
Transferable skills	Study skills	1	0	0
	Time management	1	1	2
	Team or group work	5	2	9
	Organisation	0	0	3
	Independent work	0	0	3
	Adaptability	0	0	1
	Communication	0	0	1
	Problem solving	0	0	1