A Management Model for Industrial lnvolvement in the Educational Process

Abstract

Industrial involvement in higher education can bring benefits — but how is it best organised? The authors, from Leicester Polytechnic Business School, demonstrate weaknesses in the current approach widely adopted in higher education. They construct a management model to ensure strategic co-ordination of the process, arguing that unless such a process is adopted the full benefits of industrial involvement will not be derived and important for forms of contact not established.