Training young people through a school/enterprise partnership: a longitudinal study
Abstract
This paper reports a longitudinal study of 58 students who undertook an engineering traineeship concurrent with their final two years of secondary school. The student experience was planned as a partnership arrangement between a manufacturing enterprise, a secondary school, and a post‐secondary technical education institution. Results are discussed in terms of completion of studies, employment and career pathways, employment outcomes, and post‐traineeship employment destinations. Both the quantitative and qualitative data indicate that participants have benefited significantly in each area investigated. The significance of the program in developing propositional, procedural, and dispositional workplace knowledge is also discussed.
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Citation
Smith, P.J., Henry, J. and Munro, G. (2002), "Training young people through a school/enterprise partnership: a longitudinal study", Education + Training, Vol. 44 No. 6, pp. 281-289. https://doi.org/10.1108/00400910210441419
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:MCB UP Ltd
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