Paper 4: Integration and Supervision of Industrial Training in Sandwich Degree Courses

Abstract

The meaning and objectives of integrated sandwich courses are defined, including the importance of establishing the relevance of previous academic studies to a period of industrial training. The several constraints imposed on a college proposing to introduce an integrated sandwich degree course are discussed, and attention is drawn to the relative standards of skills required during industrial training, with additional reference to training in observation and in analysis and criticism of existing processes. The necessity of regular visits to students in training by the appropriate college tutors is emphasized and the object and frequency of visits is considered together with methods of assessing the training. A method of establishing comparative assessment with academic achievement is outlined. Attention is drawn to the problems of a satisfactory commencement of the project work during the final period of industrial training and a method of assessing the project in comparison with academic examination performances is suggested.

The problems of both college and industry in placing students in industrial training are discussed and reference is made to Booklet No. 5 of the Engineering Industry Training Board.