Impact of sandwich course design on first job experience

College

Ramon V. Del Rosario College of Business

Department/Unit

Management and Organization Department

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Asia-Pacific Education Researcher

Volume

18

Issue

2

First Page

205

Last Page

217

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Abstract

Education is a common means to prepare oneself for a career, be it in government, industry, or academe; profit or non-profit organization; for self-employment or as part of the human resource talent of someone else's organization. Consequently, one of the responsibilities of higher education institutions is to prepare students for their careers. A concept that began to take off in the 1960s is to sandwich a period of actual work exposure within a student's curriculum. This paper explored different variations of that concept within a private university and demonstrated how it impacts the first job experience of its graduates. Data seem to point that students who are exposed to work for longer hours on a full-time basis are likely to receive higher salaries at better first-job level positions after they graduate. © 2009 De La Salle University.

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.3860/taper.v18i2.1323

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