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Are Undergraduate Internships Worth the Effort? Time to Reconceptualize Work-Based Learning for Building Protean Meta-Competencies
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Downs, Carolyn; Mughal, Farooq; Shah, Uzair; Ryder, Mike – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Internships are widely recognized within higher education as a useful work-based learning (WBL) approach to enhance student employability. However, there remains a need to understand whether internships provide a developmental experience that includes higher-level (soft) skills such as self-responsibility, flexibility and innovation. Our study…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Internship Programs, Work Experience Programs, Education Work Relationship