Originally published as Education + Training, Volume 50, Issue 5
ISBN: 0040-0912
Edited by: Helen Connor and Sue Shaw
This Special Issue highlights the changes in the graduate market and the way approaches taken by companies to graduate entry, learning and development have changed.
Contents:
Graduate training and development: current trends and issues
Helen Connor, Sue Shaw
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a selection of papers on the subject of graduate training and development, covering current trends and issues
Engaging a new generation of graduates
Sue Shaw, David Fairhurst
The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of generational difference and reflect on how this might impact on organisational approaches to graduate development.
Graduate development in European employment: issues and contradictions
Brenda Little
The purpose of this article is to explore to what extent there are variations in the development of graduates once in employment; to what extent these variations can be explained by differences in the higher education systems; and what the current moves towards greater harmonisation between these systems might mean for graduates' continuing professional development in employment.
Graduate training: evidence from FUSION projects in Ireland
Cecilia Hegarty, Janet Johnston
This paper aims to explore graduate training through SME-based project work. The views and behaviours of graduates are examined along with the perceptions of the SMEs and academic partner institutions charged with training graduates.
The formation of professional identity in French apprenti managers
Jacques Angot, Hedley Malloch, Birgit Kleymann
The paper aims to show how professional identity is constructed at a very early stage of initial management education. In so doing, it questions the notion of le métier in management.
Graduate development, discursive resources and the employment relationship at BAE Systems
Shirley Jenner
The purpose of this paper is to examine the evolution of an employee opinion survey and to evaluate its impact on the graduate training programme and associated employment relationships
Case study: developing graduate engineers at Kentz Engineers & Constructors
Hugh O'Donnell, Takis Karallis, Eric Sandelands, James Cassin, Donal O'Neill
The aim of this paper is to outline the approach and process in place within Kentz Engineers & Constructors to develop graduate engineers on an international basis.
About Education & Training
Education & Training addresses the increasingly complex relationships between education, training and employment and the impact of these relationships on national and global labour markets. The journal gives specific consideration to young people, looking at how the transition from school/college to employment is achieved and how the nature of partnerships between the worlds of education and work continues to evolve.
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