Abstract
There is a growing awareness of the responsibility of higher education to develop graduates who meet the expectations of the community they serve and who are effective from ‘day one’ in the workplace. However, South African employers of newly graduated food scientists and technologists often comment that higher education is not fulfilling this mandate. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to firstly identify the graduate capabilities that South African food scientists and technologists must demonstrate when they first take up employment to meet the expectations of societal stakeholders. Graduate capabilities in the context of this study are the complex combination of generic graduate attributes including employability skills and graduateness, personal attributes and the discipline-specific knowledge, skills and competencies that are core to the effectiveness of a newly graduated food scientist and technologist. Once the required graduate capabilities were known, the purpose of this study was to develop educational strategies aimed at the facilitation of the academic staff teaching food science and technology students...
D.Phil. (Education)