Competence profile differences among graduates from different academic subject fields: implications for improving students’ education

The aim of a university education is the intellectual development of citizens, and the training of professionals for their subsequent entry into the workforce. However, this entry into the workforce, following the theoretical education usually provided by the university, implies that students have to manage this difficult transition by themselves. Society, in a continual process of transformation, requires of universities that they adjust, adapting the education they offer to comply with the demands of society and the workplace. Socio-emotional skills would seem to have influence predicting professional performance. These skills also influence job-finding and employability. Consequently, providing teachers with an education in socioemotional competences is becoming a necessary task within universities, and the majority of teaching staff consider these skills to be fundamental to the personal and socio-emotional development of students. The objective of our proposed work is to establish the characteristic profile of competences of a sample of teachers in training, and compare it with the competences profile of graduate students belonging to the fields of law sciences, social sciences, humanities, science and technology, and health. Starting from results, implications will be derived for the development of generic competences of socio-emotional type in the framework of the European Frame of Higher Education.

Investigación en comunicación: estudio bibliométrico de las revistas de comunicación en España

La investigación en comunicación cuenta ya con un número apreciable de artículos y textos que han contextualizado la evolución histórica y las principales corrientes doctrinales según los diferentes autores. Sin embargo, todavía son muy escasos los estudios bibliométricos sobre la investigación en las revistas científicas. En este artículo se van a analizar las revistas españolas de comunicación que mayor índice de impacto poseen en el sistema de cuantificación del factor de impacto establecido por INRECS. Para ello, se han analizado las diez revistas de mayor índice de impacto en el año 2008 para conocer el presente de la investigación en España. Los resultados muestran una equiparación de géneros, una media de dos investigadores por artículo y una prevalencia de estudios cuantitativos.