“As someone who works in a widening participation university with collaborative partners across the world, I am interested in equipping all students with global skills to effect global social change, not just pay lip service to marketable skills on paper. Professor Bourn’s readable but scholarly book inspires me to challenge my own perception of what constitutes a 21st century skills agenda, so that I can apply this to curriculum design and partnership operation; my students will have a better chance of being skilled, critical and transformative.” (Claire Aindow, Academic Co-ordinator - Standards, Enhancement and the Learner Experience, University of Bolton, UK)

“This book is a successful attempt to systemise various approaches to definition and classification of the one of the most demanded and valuable skills, so called 21st century skills. This book also specifies differences and similarities between often substituted and confused terms such as soft skills, employability skills, global skills and 21st century skills. What I found especially valuable from practical point of view is that the author goes even beyond generic examples of those skills and gives suggestions on what are those skills in four professional areas: teaching, engineering, medicine and business.” (Dr. Miroslava Dmitrieva, German Chancellor Fellow for Prospective Leaders)