Study Skills for Higher Education

Study Skill for Higher
Education

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Main reasons for studying a degree at university...................................................................1
Core academic skills that can be developed and why are they important..............................2
3) Study plan including short term and long term goals that help in acquiring and developing
skills........................................................................................................................................2
PART 2............................................................................................................................................3
A) Importance of the foundation year for students................................................................3
(b) Key challenges facing by the foundation year..................................................................5
C) Study skills in higher education can help foundation year................................................6
Recommendation and conclusion...........................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCE...................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Study skills refers to array of skills, which tackle organising procedure as well as taking new
information, dealing with assessments and retaining information. These are the skills, which
require to be learn and study effectively (Din, Anuar and Usman, 2016). The academic skills and
study skills both are approaches, which applied to the learning. They are mainly critical to
success in the educational institutions which are necessary for acquiring the better grades and
useful for learning throughout life of one. Under mention report will be discuss about main
reasons for studying degree at university. There will be develop study plan that consists short and
long term goals which aids in developing as well as acquiring skills and knowledge.
Main reasons for studying a degree at university
University is an institution of the research and higher institution, which awards an academic
degree in different academic disciples. Mainly universities give the undergraduate and
postgraduate education to students. High teaching quality and availability of scholarship both are
two main factors, which students look during chosen university for study purpose. According to
the give case study, students have the different reason for attend a university. The main goal is
concerned with desired education type (Douglas and et.al., 2015. ). The findings of number of
the studied under which students of United States rated significance of different goals. On the
other hand, universities are helpful in transform live of people by education and wider effect of
investigation. They assists students to develop their knowledge and skills, which employers
required. The universities assure that United Kingdom remains competitive in global market
through supporting business innovation and intensive development.
Many of the students attend university to study about the specific subject area in depth.
Universities curriculums permit the students to select major, it is main different from high school
which need students to take classes according to their interest. Other reason for going the
university is that college education can lead to better career in future. In United Kingdom, firms
tend to look for the universities graduated in order to fill positions, which have high pay and
more responsibility such as supervisors and managers. If an individual have the high education
degree then it will be easier to get job. Several carriers that need degree pay better salary. It is
totally based on degree subject that open door to earn money and make future better.
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Many of the students go universities for enjoying their social life and making friends. In the
universities, students have chance to meet the people, which come from various places with the
diverse backgrounds (Lai and Hong, 2015).
Core academic skills that can be developed and why are they important
Study skills are array of skills, which tackle taking and organizing process in new information,
dealing with assessments and retaining an information. These are discrete techniques, which can
be learned in short period of time and applied in most area of study. Academic skills encourage
the students to become learners that are more effective. They helps in provide confidence to
students so that they can participate in English- speaking courses and invaluable outside of
classroom. In addition to this, academic skill are more effective learner at University level and
develop an investigation that aids in present and future. There are various core academic skills
such as learning styles, note taking, paraphrasing and academic writing which need to be
developed (Lim, 2018). Note taking is better academic skill that need to be developed. Taking
better notes in tutorials and lectures is necessary skills for university study, it permit permanent
record of the key information that need to be integrate with own writing and use for the exam
revision. The main importance of note taking is that it minimize plagiarism risk. The
Paraphrasing is another skill that can be developed. In this, writing someone text in own words
is known as paraphrasing and it is important skills that prevent from plagiarising work of original
author. It is related to presenting information and ideas, which read in, own word. Academic
writing is concerned to style of expression that investigators use to be explain intellectual
boundaries of disciplines and particular expertise areas. Specific style mainly used in formal
essay and some of the other assessment of course. It is important because it helps in write in own
way in better manner. Learning style is also a better skill, which students need to be developed
effectively. It is related to range of contested and competing theories, which aim to account for
differences in learning of people. The learning styles group’s common ways which people learn
in an effective manner. It is necessary for an individual to use specific learning style in order to
learn something new and different (Moore and Morton, 2017).
3) Study plan including short term and long term goals that help in acquiring and developing
skills
Study plan implies to a systematic way to assist students to navigate through their college
education in managed manner. A schedule determine a blueprint for to achieve various learning
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