Originally published as the Journal of European Industrial Training Volume 29 Number 6, 2005
ISBN: 1 84544 590 2
Guest edited by: Douglas Weir, University of Strathclyde & John O’Donaghue, University of Limerick.
This Special Issue presents six papers written by members of the project team – Programme for University-Industry Interface (PUII) – started at the University of Limerick in 2001.
The project is part of an initiative to support company upskilling, postgraduate conversion courses and maintenance of the national IT infrastructure. PUII is a unique collaboration between industry and higher education and aims to improve the interaction between industry and academia: prepare the workforce for the future; and, promote the development of the competencies required in a knowledge-based society.
Each of the papers describes a different aspect of the project – national policies needed; current employment as against the competition from other low cost economies, technology-enhanced learning and communications, business strategies, and community structures.
Contents:
A university response to the Irish national strategy to sustain graduate employment
The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue of the Journal of European Industrial Training. A brief commentary on each of the articles is provided and the whole issue is set in the context of national policy and research methodology from which the Programme for University Industry Interface derives its impetus.
The individual learner, employability and the workplace: A reappraisal of relationships and prophecies
In the current knowledge-based economic climate, the success of an organisation is inextricably linked to the individual. This article seeks to consider the key relationships between the individual, lifelong learning, the workplace and employability in the context of the knowledge society.
Individuals and their employability
This paper aims to describe a research project that is addressing the employability of individuals in the higher-cost Irish economy.
Technology-enhanced learning: An Irish industry perspective
The focus of this paper is to highlight the issues impacting technology-enhanced learning (TEL) in an industrial setting in Ireland. The paper uses the output from a community of practice (CoP) set up to identify and discuss these issues.
Semantic social network portal for collaborative online communities
The motivation for this investigation is to apply social networking features to a semantic network portal, which supports the efforts in enterprise training units to up-skill the employee in the company, and facilitates the creation and reuse of knowledge in online communities.
Organisational restructuring and downsizing: issues related to learning, training and employability of survivors
This article sets out to look at how employees who have survived an organisational downsizing and restructuring process adjust to meet the dynamics of the organisation, develop new skills and competencies, and the extent to which they take on new roles in the organisation.
A cystems approach to training and complexity
his paper aims to explore the quality profession's fascination with various models to depict complex interactive systems. Building on these and the outcome of a four-year action research programme, it provides a model which has potential for use by other professions. It has been tailored here to suit training and learning systems.
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