The vital skills in academia are crucial for personal and professional development; they can contribute to the economic growth of a country, building meaningful human capital by providing more people-friendly policies, investment in educational opportunities which can result in the production of more skilled workers. The more skilled a society is, the less prone it is to poverty, a more even distribution in households as well as increases in governmental incomes making the economy more sustainable. According to Phillip Brown et al (1997, p. 172) “the quality of a nation’s education and training system is seen to hold the key to future economic prosperity”.