Theory to practice/generic skills/lifelong learning : the connection

Utilising three differing cohorts of accounting students, with variation in experience of professional practice and from different cultural backgrounds this paper examines how they bring to an assignment generic skills acquired elsewhere, and how they develop and take from the experience generic skills to be used in other situations, skills invaluable in becoming life-long learners. The accounting profession requires more from their graduates which in turn puts pressure on academics to modify the curriculum in higher education to provide experiences which not only deliver the content, required by the profession but wherein students will develop the required graduate attributes. A phenomenographic perspective has been adopted in the study