Students' perception of industrial internship programme

Education and Training

Volumn 54, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 180-191

  Renganathan, Sumathi ^a   Karim, Zainal Ambri Bin Abdul ^a   Li, Chong Su ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Experiential learning; Higher education; Individual perception; Industrial internship; Internship; Malaysia; Students; Students' perception; Universities; Work based learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859487244     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00400911211210288     Document Type: Article

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