Soft skills at the Malaysian institutes of higher learning

Asia Pacific Education Review

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 309-315

  Shakir, Roselina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Communication and analytical skills; Graduates; Institute of higher learnin; Soft skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955552607     PISSN: 15981037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12564-009-9038-8     Document Type: Article

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