Graduate Attributes
Avondale's objective is that its graduates:
- Are equipped to reflect creatively on the interface between Adventist Christian values and home, workplace, and community
- Possess high ethical standards including an orientation to service
- Are committed to human and environmental sustainability
- Possess excellent and relevant professional employability skills
- Enjoy a sense of individual worth
- Lead confidently in their communities and workplaces
- Possess relevant technology skills
- Possess scholarly qualities and enthusiasm for their future lives and learning
- Understand and respect cultural differences in people
- Transfer their acquired knowledge to a variety of contexts
In addition,
Avondale's objective is that its graduates from research higher degrees are
- Autonomous researchers
- In command of a new subset of specialised knowledge
- Passionate about the discovery and advancement of knowledge
- Reflective and critical thinkers
- Insightful in the use and usefulness of research processes and research outcomes for society, the workplace and education
- Able to theorise, analyse and research a problem
- Able to communicate research outcomes in written and verbal forms adapted to suit different target audiences
- Learners in orientation and attitude
- Literate in relevant research information technology
- Active participants in a community of scholars
Approved by Avondale College Council 19 October 2010