Life Skills Training revolves around a range of skills which are transferable from students academic life to their personal life to their professional life, eg. confidence, decision making, coping skills. 

Life skills are broadly defined as an approach that “develops skills in adolescents, both to build the needed competencies for human development and to adopt positive behaviours that enables them to deal effectively with the challenges of everyday life”

(Mangrulkar, Whitman and Posner 2001:5)