Role of non-technical skills in fisheries and aquaculture employment: Students’ perspective

Abstract

Non-Technical Skills (NTS) are interpersonal skills. NTS are assumed to be resting with families and schools rather than professional educational institutes which is not true and non-technical competence have to be taught or at least improved upon in professional institutes as studies indicate that the absence of NTS can actually affect the performance. Another important aspect to imparting NTS by Institutes or Universities is the perception of Students towards acquiring these NTS, how far they are sensitized by the importance of these skills in their employability. Firstly, the importance of Non-technical skills on par with the technical skills in the perspective of employability needs to be sensitized among the students, teachers and decision-makers in the Fisheries Education system. Time is not far where any sector including Fisheries and Aquaculture would be solely dependent on Artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics, Internet of Things and so on. Therefore, it is wise to impart such futuristic skills and also other Non-technical skills in students to make them competent and also to improve the employability.