Graduates and employers were surveyed on the mathematical education of engineers in Australia. This paper summarizes their views and contrasts undergraduate and postgraduate courses. The undergraduate courses tend to be more traditional and structured, while there is a need for more work emphasizing mathematical modeling for postgraduate courses.…

Group Feedback Strategy was used to evaluate data from 73 employers, 18 tutors, 156 students, and 45 graduates involved in work placements in a library and information science program. Respondents showed reasonably high satisfaction for the following characteristics of placements: teamwork experience, assessment of capabilities, training…

An empirical examination of 23 business schools found that students' perceptions of school effectiveness differed from those of faculty and the business community. Diversity of student body and acceptance rate significantly influenced student satisfaction. Faculty were more concerned with class size and faculty-student ratios. (SK)

Examined criteria that college students (n=130) use to select employment referents. Content analysis of college students' rationales for selecting employment referents revealed that students valued familiarity with employment most when choosing referents, suggesting that their choices do not always match with what employers value in reference…

Two groups were surveyed: 127 business students, 49 executives, and 28 faculty in the United States and 177 students, 31 executives, and 76 faculty in New Zealand. Both groups of students valued opportunities for advancement, challenge, and responsibility in their first job. New Zealand professors agreed with their students, U.S. faculty did not.…

At Columbia College Chicago, the marketing communication department is evaluating and improving internship outcomes based on companion student and employer surveys. (Author)

The author presents the advantages and disadvantages of a nonpay work experience and decides that the benefits outweight the hazards. (AG)

Outlines the author's attempt to investigate the notion that the Youth Training Scheme curriculum is best understood as an expression of ideology. It is a report of an ongoing piece of research and the focus is on the Supporting Studies element of the YTS as the place in the curriculum where ideology is most obviously manifest. (Author/CT)

Compared employer's criteria for college graduate employees with criteria home economics college students think employers desire. Both groups agreed that motivation, verbal communication skills, work experience, cooperativeness, appearance, knowledge of company, and references were important. A gap was noted for five characteristics: initiative,…

Reports findings from research that compared personal qualities demanded by employers with actual attributes of information and library studies (ILS) students in the United Kingdom. Discusses personality and ILS students and concludes that there is a gap between educators', students', and employers' views on whether students have the qualities…

The purposes of the study were to (1) determine the overall perception of vocational education in Indiana as held by the general public, (2) determine if there are differences in perceptions related to the various areas within vocational education, (3) identify perceptions of vocational education by junior and senior high school students,…

Responses from 29 native and 71 nonnative English-speaking business students were compared with employers' ranking of oral communication skills. Both groups rated listening and conversation highly. Native speakers ranked following instructions and listening much higher than did nonnative speakers. Work experience, age, and gender contributed to…

A survey of 182 Nigerian vocational teacher trainees and their employers who provided unpaid work experience received 122 and 148 usable responses respectively. Students were generally positive about the experience, and over 60% of employers rated students highly on willingness and ability to learn. Many Nigerian employers cannot provide paid work…

Surveys and interviews of 50 entering master of business administration (MBA) students, 10 MBA graduates, and 10 employers showed that graduates perceived their business skills and knowledge as significantly stronger than students did. Employers felt that graduates possessed needed skills but thought the program needed less textbook emphasis and…