Meanings
- uncountableGeneric qualities that might be expected of any graduate.
Some of the traditional properties of graduateness have more to do with the experience of being a student than with the education received.
1996, George MacDonald Ross, Quality and Enhancement: Graduateness2 more examples
The most promising approach to establishing shared, explicit standards seems to lie in exploring the generic qualities that might be expected of any graduate — this has come to be called 'graduateness'.
1995, Higher Education Quality Committee, “Executive Summary”, in British HEQC Interim Report, page 32006, The Higher Education Quality Council (HEQC): Quality Enhancement Group (1995), What Are Graduates? Clarifying The Attributes Of Graduateness, https://web.archive.org/web/20060926193403/http://www.city.londonmet.ac.uk/deliberations/graduates/starter.html [6] The exploration in greater depth of the notion of graduateness is ... This suggests that an agreed notion of graduateness (or notions - if there turn ...
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