Competence, Capability and Graduate Attributes

Competence, in vocational, higher education and workplaces has emerged in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century as a term with multiple meanings and applications across these areas of educational endeavour as discussed elsewhere in this volume. In addition, the term ‘capability’ has come to prominence with a range of meanings from a synonym for competence in some usage, to the plural capabilities and sometime synonymously with capacity.