International Enterprise Education

6 Work placements and sandwich programmes

The case of MacEwan University’s Supply Chain Co-op programme

Rickard Enström

Introduction

Discussions around the value of integrated curricula, future work skills and graduates’ work readiness has become a centrepiece in contemporary business education research (Daly, 2013; Jackson and Chapman, 2012a, 2012b). Adding to the debate, are frequent reports on a gulf between formal business education and actual experienced success in business (Pfeffer and Fong, 2002), fuelling the never-ceasing discussion about the role of a ‘university’. In a response to these concerns, many post-secondary institutions are reconsidering their business models and putting substantial efforts into improving students’ learning ...