Capabilities

The capabilities connect student learning within and across subjects in a range of contexts. 

The SACE identifies seven capabilities. They are:

• literacy
• numeracy
• information and communication technology (ICT) capability
• critical and creative thinking
• personal and social capability
• ethical understanding
• intercultural understanding.

In Industry Connections, students not only extend and apply their capabilities, they also develop their core skills for work and their employability skills.

The core skills for work and employability skills include key skills, knowledge and understandings that underpin successful participation in work, such as problem solving, collaboration, self-management, enterprise, initiative and communication. These skills are valued by employers and industry as important for successful participation in the workforce (https://www.dese.gov.au/skills-information-training-providers/core-skills-work-developmental-framework).

Capabilities, core skills for work, and employability skills have commonalities in that they all share the same intention; that is to foster in students key underpinning dispositions that support their successful transition and interactions with economy, community and society.

Industry Connections explicitly enables students to learn in an industry context, and to practice, recognise and build evidence of their core skills and employability skills. In Industry Connections these are expressed as capabilities.