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| Title: | Recruiting competence from vocational schools : paradise regained? |
| Authors: | Clausen, Trond
Hagen, Svein Thore
Hasleberg, Harald |
| Issue Date: | 2004 |
| Abstract: | After a period of declining student enrolment, in 2002 Telemark University College (TUC) took advantage of vocational
schools reforms to establish a three years bachelor programme in electrical engineering for a pilot class. The students of this
class, all holding at least one relevant trade certificate, were presented a redesigned programme intended to produce an output engineer
"at least as good as" the engineer graduating from an ordinary programme. After having evaluated and assessed the programme
as well as student performance during, and after the first year of the pilot class, there are indications that the pilot class performs
better than student groups recruited the ordinary way. However, there are still two more years to go before the title's rhetoric
question "Paradise Regained?" finally and tentatively may be answered with a firm "yes". |
| Keywords: | Engineering education
Student enrolment
Vocational schools |
| Document type: | Conference paper |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2282/523 |
| Appears in Collections: | Institutt for elektro, IT og kybernetikk
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