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Building a Business Clinic in Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges for students’ skills development

Watson, Derek and Barkas, Linda Anne (2018) Building a Business Clinic in Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges for students’ skills development. Journal of International Business Education, 13. pp. 237-248. ISSN 1649-4946

Item Type: Article

Abstract

This article reports on research conducted on students’ skills development in a Business Clinic setting in a post-1992 university. Framed withn the ‘understanding, skills, efficacy and meta-cognition model (USEM)’ of Knight and Yorke (2003) the findings offered insight into students’ professional development on live projects and revealed the opportunities and challenges for the university. In an already crowded curriculum, academic staff welcomed the initiative. A key challenge for the university was how to ensure that the value of academic knowledge could be retained, within the necessity to provide students with practical, vocational skills development. While ensuring rigorous evaluation procedures for both the employers and the students, further challenges surrounded the complexities of integrating live projects into the current pedagogical structure. The opportunities, however, were positive, resulting in new business links with local employers, whereby partnerships for business engagement and opportunities for students’ internships/placements commenced.

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Depositing User: Linda Barkas

Identifiers

Item ID: 10143
ISSN: 1649-4946
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/10143
Official URL: http://www.neilsonjournals.com/JIBE/abstractjibe13...

Users with ORCIDS

ORCID for Derek Watson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1944-3544
ORCID for Linda Anne Barkas: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3907-9193

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Date Deposited: 12 Nov 2018 14:54
Last Modified: 16 May 2022 12:59

Contributors

Author: Derek Watson ORCID iD
Author: Linda Anne Barkas ORCID iD

University Divisions

Faculty of Business, Law and Tourism
Faculty of Business, Law and Tourism > Sunderland Business School

Subjects

Business and Management > Business and Management

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