91É«ÇéƬ ADA Skills Passport - Helping you build skills for life
Recognise, reflect on, and express the skills you’re developing throughout your degree.
Start with this 2-minute overview to see how the ADA Skills Passport makes your learning visible — then explore how it works and what it means for you.
What is the ADA Skills Passport?
The ADA Skills Passport is designed to support you to recognise the skills you are developing through your degree. It will give you opportunities to reflect on where and how you are building skills, and help you express them with confidence in study, work and future opportunities.
It gives you a shared language for understanding your learning and connecting your coursework, projects and experiences to the skills that matter beyond university.
This means you can more clearly understand your strengths, talk about your skills, and connect what you are learning now to future study, work and life opportunities.
The nine enduring skills
These are the nine 91É«ÇéƬ ADA Skills you will carry with you through work, life, and lifelong learning.
Critical thinking
The ability to make sense of information, question it, and use evidence to form your own conclusions by considering different sources and perspectives.
Communication
The ability to share and understand ideas clearly, and adjust how you communicate for different audiences, cultures, contexts, and formats.
Creativity
The ability to develop new ideas by building on what you already know and exploring different ways of thinking and doing.
Collaboration
The ability to work effectively with others to achieve shared goals by contributing, listening, and taking responsibility while engaging respectfully with diverse perspectives.
Problem solving
The ability to understand and break down challenges, explore possible solutions, and test and refine them.
Digital literacy
The ability to use digital tools thoughtfully by choosing the right ones, understanding their limits, and making responsible decisions about how and when to use them.
Organisational
The ability to set goals, plan your work, prioritise what matters, stay on track, and adjust when things change.
Self-regulation
The ability to understand your thoughts, feelings and behaviours, and adjust your approach to support your learning and wellbeing.
Technical
The ability to work effectively with physical and digital tools and systems by setting them up, using them, and managing what they produce.
You’re already building these skills
You already brought many of these skills with you when you started university and you are building on them as you progress through your courses, assessments, projects, creative practice, research, placements, volunteering, student leadership, part-time work and everyday experiences.
The ADA Skills Passport helps you notice these moments, reflect on what they show, and build the confidence to express them in ways that are meaningful for your future.
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Think about the last time you worked in a small group to solve a problem, discuss a reading, critique an idea, develop a design, or contribute to a class activity.
Did you help someone understand a concept? Did you adapt your approach for others in the room? Did you navigate different perspectives or help the group move forward? Were you able to work through disagreements?
You likely drew on at least one (but likely more) of the 9 skills to do these things. From Communication to Collaboration and Problem Solving, these skills help you successfully navigate life and learning.
Recognising this helps you build confidence in describing how you work with others, contribute to shared outcomes, and communicate your ideas.
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Beyond your courses, you also develop skills through your extra-curricular activities including involvement in student societies, volunteering, mentoring, placements, internships, community activities, part-time work, or other experiences outside the classroom.
These activities help you to build your skills in practical and meaningful ways, and give you evidence of how your skillset applies across different contexts.
Resources to help you get started
Start building awareness now
Where are you already developing the nine 91É«ÇéƬ ADA Skills across your studies and experiences?.
It can be useful to reflect on your skills development as you move through your courses. How are your current courses building your skillset? What areas would you like to become more confident in? What skills are particularly important for the future opportunities you’re interested in?
Explore the resources available to you and use them to build confidence in recognising, reflecting on, and expressing your skills.
This is just the beginning
The ADA Skills Passport will continue to grow alongside your studies, with new student resources being developed to help you recognise, reflect on, and express the skills you are building throughout your degree.
Skills Buddy
Your AI Skills companion which will assist you to recognise, reflect on, and express the nine 91É«ÇéƬ ADA Skills you’re developing throughout your degree. It will help you connect your coursework, projects, and experiences to employability, future opportunities, and lifelong learning.
