Required skill:

Develop basic critical skills and a recognition that statements are not all of equal validity, that there are ways of testing them, and that historians operate by rules of evidence which, though themselves subject to critical evaluation, are also a component of intellectual integrity and maturity

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement, attention to detail		 Generic competencies
Personal capabilities
Adaptability/flexibility, listening, questioning		 Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements
Professional expertise

Required skill:

Develop the ability to set tasks and solve problems

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement, attention to detail		 Generic competencies
Personal capabilities Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements
Professional expertise

Required skill:

Gather, sift, select, organise and synthesise large quantities of evidence

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement, attention to detail		 Generic competencies
Planning and organising
Personal capabilities Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements
Professional expertise

Required skill:

Formulate appropriate questions and provide answers to them using valid and relevant evidence and argument

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement, attention to detail		 Generic competencies
Personal capabilities
Listening, questioning		 Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements
Professional expertise

Required skill:

Demonstrate an understanding of the nature of the discipline including what questions are asked by historians, and why

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement, attention to detail		 Generic competencies
Personal capabilities
Listening, questioning		 Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements
Professional expertise

Required skill:

Develop reflexivity, i.e. the marshalling of argument - in written and oral form drawing on and presenting all the above skills

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement, attention to detail		 Generic competencies
Written communication
Personal capabilities
Listening, questioning, creativity		 Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements
Professional expertise

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