Theme 2 - Retention of knowledge and skills

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Theme 2: Progression and Retention of Knowledge and Skills

Students and lecturers often experience a loss of knowledge and skills among students during their studies. And students’ new employers experience a lack of knowledge and skills necessary in their companies. Wouldn’t it be nice if students would retain the knowledge and skills acquired during their studies and be able to apply them throughout their studies and in their future jobs? Some possible questions within this theme are: how to design a consistent curriculum to stimulate retention of knowledge and skills? And: How to design the assessment of knowledge and skills in such a way that knowledge and skills retention is guaranteed?