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Student placement as a means to improve personal and professional skills

Student placement as a means to improve personal and professional skills. Gabriela Ribas Fernando García Blanca De Miguel María De Miguel María Del Val Segarra Juan Carlos Cortés Roberto Cervelló. Teaching In University.

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Student placement as a means to improve personal and professional skills

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  1. Student placement as a means to improve personal and professional skills Gabriela Ribas Fernando García Blanca De Miguel María De Miguel María Del Val Segarra Juan Carlos Cortés Roberto Cervelló

  2. Teaching In University Teachingconsistsonhelpingstudentstoacquireknowledge, butalsototeachthemhowtolearn: • Toknowallthecontents of thesubject • Toknowtheprofessionalpractices • ADQUISITION OF SKILLS

  3. acquisition of skills • Key issue in the Spanish higher education institutions after the establishment of the European Higher Education Area. • Main tasks of the University is to create well-qualified professionals. • Needed resources: • adequate rooms • technologies • legal frame • cooperation between University and industry • contact of the students with the working world STUDENT PLACEMENT

  4. Student Placement • Internship • great aid for students to acquire skills • get in contact with the labourenviroment • to see that the theory can be used to solve real life problems • To have an impact on students motivation • Great importance in their carriers

  5. Some of the skills that can be acquired and used during the placement • Communication skills • Creative thinking • Critical thinking • Decision making • Domain specific skills • Goal setting • Interpersonal skills • Leadership • Learning to learn • Negotiation • Organizational effectiveness skills • Problem-solving • Self motivation • Teamwork • Time management

  6. Student Placement Collaborative Programs between University and companies and the cooperation with other kind of institutions in employment and educational matters makes it possible. The aims of these programs are to improve the technological aspects of the companies and provide students wit a well-rounded education in order to make their transitioning to professional life easier.

  7. Internship Program(Contract for Educational Cooperation) • Regulated in the Spanish laws: • R.D. 1497/81 and R.D. 1845/94 • Essential figures: • UPV-Tutor • Company-Tutor • Advisable that students get paid for the work • Elective Credits

  8. Evolution of theplacements Numbers of placements of FADE students

  9. Numbers of placements of FADE students • Bachelor of Business Administration and Management • Startedalready in theyear 1998 • Itistheoldest • Concentratesthelargernumber of studentsregistered in theFaculty • Bachelor of PublicAdministration • Most of thestudentsalreadyworked (theycuoldnotmake a placement) • MasterDegree • Verylownumber of students • Many of them are working

  10. Evolution of theplacements Number of firmscollaboratingwiththe UPV

  11. Evolution of theplacements Percentage of studentsfrom FADE participating in a placement

  12. CONCLUSION It is worth to undertake all the necessary actions and efforts to increase the number of internships, with high satisfaction levels for both, students and enterprises.

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