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For the last year Owen Kelly has worked with a group of educators from across the Nordic and Baltic regions to develop the VAKEN project. This has begun developing a rapid learning process to enable students (and later others) to improve their soft skills.

The process has raised a number of interesting and difficult questions starting with \u201chow do we define soft skills?\u201d On the one hand they can easily seem to mean whatever you want them to mean. On the other hand it remains far from clear whose benefit they serve. Should we see them as sets of behaviours the employers increasingly demand from job applicants, or should we see them as aspects of self-development and well-being that everyone should have access to?

In this episode Owen Kelly pursues a genuine inquiry into what we might mean by soft skills, and why we might find ourselves concerned with them.