What is Sage Skills and what is it designed to do?
Sage Skills is designed to assist University student to develop core skills for both their time studying and also as they prepare for employment.
The are two parts to the Skills collection.
1. Student Success
2. Business Skills - (Employability skills)
Both are designed to be interactive and have an assessment quiz to help identify where to spend your time or areas to prioritise. There are a range of problem solving scenarios, videos, data visualizations, exercise and a lot of real world insights from different perspectives.
Watch the above video to get an overview of Sage Skills: Business, then check out the five modules included in the resource below. Each of these modules includes a variety of skills and topics, which are explored in more depth on the About page.
Sage Skills: For Employability
Sage Skills: Business is designed to help students to develop and practice real-world skills needed to successfully transition from campus life to the workplace. This interactive digital resource features both academic and practitioner experts in a library of flexible learning tracks across five in-demand categories. It supports a wide range of courses.
Sage Skills: Student Success
Sage Skills: Student Success is designed to assist students to develop and practice the academic and personal skills necessary to successfully transition to campus life and enable lifelong learning. It contains 90 skills and approximately 1,100 topics across ten modules, this interactive digital resource provides a flexible learning journey through self-assessments, interactive scenarios, downloadable exercises, original videos, etc.
Sage Publishing's academic and career building resources represent the work of academic and nonacademic experts from around the world. Our editors and contributors come from multiple countries, have highly varied professional backgrounds, represent diverse academic institutions, and approach topics from a range of disciplinary perspectives. They bring years of experience working with students and preparing them for the rigors of work in higher education and beyond.
In creating these resources, it was and is important for us to recognize the highly diverse life experiences and academic backgrounds of students and ensure that our content is inclusive and accessible. We remain committed to this as we update and grow these resources.
We recognize that the highest level of commitment to diversity in our publishing is critical, and in turn we offer the following pledges:
These are aspirational goals, but ones that we are working very hard to achieve. We believe strongly that they are the duty of a responsible publishing company.