Managerial skills that affect the design of new careers in the Academic Unit of Education – UCACUE

Abstract

This research evidence and determines the competencies of professionals that –in a rapidly changing daily work life– affect the design of the curricula of the University Catholic of Cuenca. The methodology has a qualitative and quantitative approach that allowed for establishing findings that I present descriptively and relationally. This study does not manipulate the variables but analyzes them according to how they arise. The universe is students of the Academic Unit of Education, Pedagogy of Physical Activity career of the University of Cuenca: 157 students of which thirty-two are women and 125 are men. The sample consisted of 102 students, one dean, one sub-dean, one career director, and seven career teachers, which corresponded to a 95% confidence level and 5% error. It was found that professional skills are necessary to enhance students' academic and employment opportunities and that these are vital to designing a new curriculum.