Developing Future-Ready University Graduates: Nurturing Wellbeing and Life Skills as Well as Academic Talent.

ABSTRACT: Higher education is starting to embrace its role in promoting student wellbeing and life skills, especially given the concerning levels of poor mental health and uncertainties in the future job market. Yet, many of the published studies evaluating positive educational teaching methods thus far are limited to interventions delivered to small student cohorts and/or imbedded within elective wellbeing courses, and are focussed on developed Western countries. This study addressed this gap by investigating the effectiveness of an institution-wide compulsory course informed by the principles of Seligman's Wellbeing Theory. The course was delivered at a British university in a developing country in Southeast Asia. It purposefully sought to nurture growth-oriented outcomes (including self-awareness

SUBMITTER: Gan TY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8931502 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature