Incorporating transferable skills into a pre-service teacher’s education lesson plans: A case study of an accounting course

In response to the demand of employers,professional recruiters,or accreditation bodies,typically,higher education institutions incorporate the expected characteristics into their learning curricula. this paper reports a project addressing the lack of transferable skills identified in the curriculum of an indonesian accountancy education programme. a research and development method was adopted in the research. the three-year-long project involved more than a thousand people participating in the identification,development,testing and dissemination of a set of transferable skills into four national higher education courses,namely statistics,cost accounting,educational technology in accounting education,and computerised accounting. this paper contributes to the knowledge and practice by proposing a modified semester learning plan for the courses that is expected to improve the quality of the graduates. the characteristics inserted in the relevant courses include honest,responsible,obedient,confident,persistent and hard-working,proportionally and logically thinking,creative and innovative,nice and kind,and open-minded. the relevant transferable skills inserted in the courses include communicating effectively,cooperating with work groups,interacting with society,negotiating to achieve a win-win solution,respecting others,being responsible,assessing the benefits of it use properly,leading work groups fairly and democratically,and expressing opinions in work groups. © universiti putra malaysia press.