Impact of sandwich course design on first job experience

Asia-Pacific Education Researcher

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 205-217

  Santiago, Andrea ^a  

^a DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Employability; Learning to do; Sandwich programs; Transitions from education to work; Work education programs; Work related learning; Workbased learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 72849139038     PISSN: 01195646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3860/taper.v18i2.1323     Document Type: Article

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