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Pathways to formally assessed work placement : employers' perspectives on collaborative education in the Australian construction industry

conference contribution
posted on 2011-01-01, 00:00 authored by Anthony MillsAnthony Mills, P McLaughlin, P Davis
The QS and construction industry is uniquely impacted by project-based work environments. This creates special challenges for collaborative, work-integrated education of pre-professional students. This research is based on investigating the attitudes of employer’s towards the use of formally assessed internships. The study comprised two stages- firstly a series of pilot interviews were undertaken with employers to test a number known issues and secondly, the results from the interviews were used to refine a set of questions that were put to a large focus group of employers who were invited from across the property and construction sector in Australia. The results showed that many employer organisations expressed considerable goodwill towards collaborative education with universities. However, the challenges caused by project-based work environments restrict employers' ability to provide comprehensive learning opportunities. This research discusses some of the distinctive issues associated with work-integrated learning in the construction industry and proposes some potential opportunities for overcoming these restrictions.

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Event

Pacific Association of Quantity Surveyors Congress (15th : 2011 : Colombo, Sri Lanka)

Pagination

231 - 237

Publisher

Institute of Quantity Surveyors Sri Lanka

Location

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Place of publication

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Start date

2011-07-23

End date

2011-07-26

ISBN-13

9789550713011

Language

eng

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Publication classification

E1 Full written paper - refereed

Copyright notice

2011, Institute of Quantity Surveyors Sri Lanka

Editor/Contributor(s)

R Rameezdeen, S Senaratne, Y Sandanayake

Title of proceedings

PAQS 2011 : Proceedings of the Cost Management in a World Emerging from Adversity : 15th Pacific Association of Quantity Surveyors Congress

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