Competencias básicas y transversales, nuevas demandas de formación en la educación superior

Abstract

This article arises from the question made about higher education goals in the new century, according to the concept of competence and implications thereof in the educational practice focus on professional training. Some contributions of Bernard Rey, an author from the Free University of Brussels, set forth about transversals competencies have been specially taken into consideration.

Afterwards. some arguments about how the training of a competent professional  can be favored and how said competencies can be acquired, have been reviewed, mainly for university nursing.

In the last part, a reflection about the nature of the no writing knowhow coming from the professional practical knowledge is made,  which teaching has the advantage of being inseparable of the practice.