graduateness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

graduate +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

graduateness (uncountable)

  1. Generic qualities that might be expected of any graduate.
    • 1995, Higher Education Quality Committee, “Executive Summary”, in British HEQC Interim Report, page 3:
      The most promising approach to establishing shared, explicit standards seems to lie in exploring the generic qualities that might be expected of any graduate — this has come to be called 'graduateness'.
    • 1996, George MacDonald Ross, Quality and Enhancement: Graduateness[1]:
      Some of the traditional properties of graduateness have more to do with the experience of being a student than with the education received.
    • 2006, The Higher Education Quality Council (HEQC): Quality Enhancement Group (1995), What Are Graduates? Clarifying The Attributes Of Graduateness, [2]
      [6] The exploration in greater depth of the notion of graduateness is ... This suggests that an agreed notion of graduateness (or notions - if there turn ...