Core Academic Skills for Student Success in Business & Tourism Degree

This essay identifies and discusses core academic skills crucial for student success in higher education, particularly within business and tourism management programs. It emphasizes the importance of skills such as time management, research, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and problem-solving. The essay highlights how these skills contribute to personal development, employability, and the ability to turn dreams into reality. It further delves into specific skills like research, proofreading, planning, and note-taking, explaining their significance in academic writing and professional settings. The conclusion reiterates the necessity of developing these skills for students in business and tourism management to enhance their knowledge and promote success in their chosen fields. Desklib provides this document and other resources to support students in their academic journey.

Identify and discuss core academic skills for student success

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
ESSAY.........................................................................................................................................3
Explanation of why higher education academic skill are crucial for success..............................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are related to abilities, habits and strategies which are help for learners in
order to success in an academic setting. This is generally build on students masters of literacy
and interested subjects (Rose, Aizawa and Thompson, 2020). For the students it is necessary in
reality they are interwind with lot of other type of skills which are need to various aspect of your
life. Once student graduate it help for build skill which are related to time management, good
writing and organisation that help for making day to day life easier. Present report based on the
essay that is help for identifies key academic skills that help for contribute in order to success in
business and tourism management degree.
ESSAY
Explanation of why higher education academic skill are crucial for success
Academic success is one of the crucial for student because it help student to build
confidence in order to get jobs which help for getting satisfactory wages to student. Then higher
level of education help for tackle the technologically demanding occupations the working
students that need in the future. There are some features that help student for success:
 It helps you gain personal control of life- Education is one of the important part of any
person because it helps by getting education it helps for change to change life better in
order to follow the graduate as well as in order to become manager in holiday company
student should have masters degree which is help for enhance knowledge as well as able
to take decision in life (Tang, 2019). Also, it helps by open up new and exciting personal
career opportunities that can develop according to time.
 This is help to get skills for employment- As progress began it helps for manage time in
order to follow several task on the same time in masters degree which help to interact
with different types of people from fellow to professors and industry professionals this
skill help for play vitals role in near future. During the college time it helps to build
interest in tours and travel in tourism management which help for working effectively as
well as it is necessary for carefully honed set of interpersonal and organizational skill.
Then, tourism management is all about interact with other in order to focus more on
perform challenges on the basis of different situation.
 Education allows for turn dreams into reality- This is one of the true aspects which
help student in order to improve their learning and build their personality accordingly.

Also, it is necessary to give confidence as well as student have opportunity to going
Chuse holiday destination of UK which is one of the dream of any student after getting
master degree. For that kind of dream it is necessary to collect knowledge through
theoretical knowledge than perform better in company.
There are different types of skill which are help student in order to become success in
their life such as adaptive thinking which is one of the important skill that help for changing at
exponential years as well as it help others to learn new software or program on the basis of
changing conditions which help to learn quickly and efficiently. Then, communication skill help
for emphasis on the ability in order to communicate with others as as team, student, employee,
tourist guide etc. In context to Chuse company students can join after the master degree which
help for getting early success in student life (Mendo-Lázaro, Polo-del-Río and Iglesias-Gallego,
2018). Then, in tourisms management communication plays vital role in order to show the
personality of person how they reflect themselves in front of others. This is also helped by
getting collaborations skill in order to follow in the competition and independence rather than
team work. There are different culture of person travel at their favourite destination that is why it
is necessary to have the collaboration skill to adjust with different culture people as well as it is
necessary for focus on critical thinking and problem solving skill which help by decreased
emphasis on employers in order to follow the direction which can be increased according to time.
In addition to this, it help for building the creativity and innovation skill that is necessary for
solving problem of others which can be correlates with ability for ask good questions and ability
to problem solve.
Academic success can be depend on particular skill set which help people in order to
apply information accordingly. The skill which is developed in school is useful for entering in
healthy workplace as well as it help for support their career in order to achieve goals (Redmond,
Brown and Henderson, 2018). Time management is one of the important skill which is
necessary in academic writing because it help for organise and schedule times efficiently as well
as it help by effectively or devote sufficient time to working which is help for understanding and
manage by increasing productivity. With the help of this skill student can divide their work
according to the academic writing for how much time it is necessary for selecting relevant topic
and work accordingly to make success report. Then, research skill is also important to make
effective writing essay or report that is oftens require to student as well as it help other skills

which help by involve critical thinking and finding from incredible sources and using effective
search strategies such is careers in journalism and analyse on the basis of benefit from well as
developed research skill. This is also help to work ons their skill in which research skill is must
as well a it help to provide confidence with others which is important parts for enhance
knowledge.
In addition to this, group work is also another skill which is necessary to developed as
well as it is related to group work which is one of the important skill in order to focus on learning
related to work productivity in order to improve communications as well as it is help by focus
more on all the other aspect also such as group work in order to complete assignment as well as
it is necessary to make career in order to solve the conflict resolution skills (Müller, 2021). This
is beneficial for practising and collaboration skill in order to follow the volunteering or
participating in extracurricular activities. For the future this activity help for providing
confidence of working with team which is necessary to build better personality in front of others.
Further, presentation and public speaking skill help ability in order to follow the give an
oral presentation confidently and effectively. That kind of skill help to make eye contact and
body language in order to take advantages for engaging in assertive communication and create
helpful presentation material. Then, for students it helps in near future which help for improving
their knowledge and enhance learning which is one of the important aspect. In context to
business and tourism management it helps for improving personality by presenting themselves
in front of others. Also, in context to follow all the aspect it provides confidence to talk with
others so that it help for attracting client who wants to join tour package.
By focus more on skills it help student in order tos improve academic skill as well as it is
necessary to work on important skill such as research skill, proof reading, planning and note-
taking skill. In order to understand the research skill it has been analysed that research skill is
the ability of find an answer to question or solution to problem (Menz, 2020). Also, research
skill is one of the important part in writing process because it can be enabled writers to find
information in order to create an outline for their writing project so that it help to focus more on
creative and academic writing. It has been analysed that research aim for measuring and assess
information in order to participate in decision making purpose. As well as it help for focus on
reliable facts and relevant information that is usually far and effective and credible. On the basis
of research it helps for tourism business in order to get better understanding of their visitors as

well as local tourism market. There are different types of research done in the tourism research
which is related to pure research that can be done by solely as well as it helps to increase
knowledge. Then, it can be said that help by solving practical which is initiated by researcher as
well as on the basis of consultancy of research it is help by solving practical problem that can be
initiated by researcher.
In addition to this, it has been analysed that proofreading is one of the common skill that
help in order to include proficiency in foreign language, machines operation, computer
programming or proofreading (Jereb, Podbregar and Šprajc, 2018). For student it is necessary
to have often overlooked academic skill that can be improved the quality of writing. Student sure
about their writing which helps in order to correct minor errors and inconsistencies. Also, it help
for proofreading in order to check issues which is especially in print publishing. There are
different types of steps which are necessary to follow in order to improve the content such as in
business and tourism management it is necessary to focus more on revising the content which is
related to business as well as sending information to clients help to proof read the content so that
there will be no chance of having mistake.
In addition to this it has been analysed that cognitive skill known as executive function
which is related to skill that are help for setting goals as well as it help for making decision in
order to takes support for critical thinking and self regulation. For student, it is necessary to
develop natural strength and weakness in order to accept the difficulty as well as it is help
student to build strength in orders focusing more on able to take decision. That is why it is
necessary for planning in correct way to follow all the rules and regulation which is necessary
for the student (McGaughey, Berg and Kerdo, 2019). In context to tourism and business
management it is necessary to planning on the basis of following all the steps. Then, it is help
for excellent customer service skill, cultural awareness and flexibility. Then in order to get
success it is necessary for tourism planning which really makes by break destination as well as it
is help by ensure the longevity of tourism industry in areas as well as it is related to take care of
positives economic crises which is benefit to community.
Further, note taking skill is important skill which help for keep student awake in order to
focus on pay attention as well as it is help in class which is necessary for learn on the basis of
actively engaging with the topic and important point by summarizing the information which help
for understand and remember the information. This skill help by practice in order to recording

information that can be captured from another source. It help to improve skill which is related to
visually clear, organised, concise and structured notes for make sense later in order to see
different formats of notes below for ideas.
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded that there are different types of skill which help for improving knowledge
of student as well as it is help for promoting different type of activities to students. For tourism
and business management student it is necessary to develop skill such as research skill,
communication, collaborating, note taking etc.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Jereb, E., Podbregar, I. and Šprajc, P., 2018. Factors influencing plagiarism in higher education:
A comparison of German and Slovene students. PloS one, 13(8), p.e0202252.
McGaughey, F., Berg, L. and Kerdo, P.P., 2019. ‘Finally an academic approach that prepares
you for the real world’: simulations for human rights skills development in higher
education. Human Rights Education Review.
Mendo-Lázaro, S., Polo-del-Río, M.I. and Iglesias-Gallego, D., 2018. Cooperative team learning
and the development of social skills in higher education: The variables
involved. Frontiers in psychology, 9, p.1536.
Menz, M., 2020. Integrating Academic Skills and Employability-Revisiting the Learning
Journal. Journal of Research in Higher Education, 4(2).
Müller, M., 2021. The development of students’ academic skills from the aspect of a pandemic
Covid-19. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS. org) (Vol. 1613, p. 73).
Redmond, P., Brown, A. and Henderson, R., 2018. An online engagement framework for higher
education. Online learning, 22(1), pp.183-204.
Rose, H., Aizawa, I. and Thompson, G., 2020. What drives success in English medium taught
courses? The interplay between language proficiency, academic skills, and
motivation. Studies in Higher Education, 45(11), pp.2149-2161.
Tang, K.N., 2019. Beyond Employability: Embedding Soft Skills in Higher Education. Turkish
Online Journal of Educational Technology-TOJET, 18(2), pp.1-9.
1