The Success of Apprenticeships

14Sandwich Course Training in Higher Education in an Island Territory

14.1. Introduction

The University of Corsica has chosen the apprenticeship route to develop higher vocational training as part of a policy to develop the knowledge economy, a key factor in making the region more attractive. This training strategy is fundamental to the emergence and availability of qualified human resources with an entrepreneurial logic based on innovative activities with high potential growth.

This chapter therefore seeks to analyze the lessons learned from the exemplarity of the CFA UNIV in the Corsican region with a view to a dynamic design of a regional territorial development plan based on the knowledge economy. An analysis of the results of surveys on the professional future of work-based students with degrees from the University of Corsica, conducted since 2011, and semi-directed interviews will provide significant information on the adequacy of the job-training relationship and the structure of the Corsican entrepreneurial fabric.

14.2. The system of sandwich course training at the University of Corsica, adapted to the context of an island economy

The specificity of Corsica’s island economy is characterized by the predominance of very small businesses, small farmers and producers, and craftsmen and traders who make up 95% of its entrepreneurial fabric. In addition, Corsica also has the exemplarity of being a territory characterized by an aging working population, which means that ...