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What is University Institution

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Handbook of Research on Human Capital and People Management in the Tourism Industry
Usually comprising a college of liberal arts and sciences and graduate and professional schools and having the authority to confer degrees in various fields of study. A university differs from a college in that it is usually larger, has a broader curriculum, and offers graduate and professional degrees in addition to undergraduate degrees. Although universities did not arise in the West until the Middle Ages in Europe, they existed in some parts of Asia and Africa in ancient times.
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Company Internships: Filling the Gap Between University Training and Business Reality
Noelia Araújo Vila (University of Vigo, Spain), Diego R. Toubes (University of Vigo, Spain), Arthur Filipe de Araújo (University of Aveiro, Portugal), and Jose Antonio Fraiz Brea (University of Vigo, Spain)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 24
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4318-4.ch009
Abstract
Practical experience has increasingly become an important component of university training. Institutions have made efforts to provide students with the opportunity to experience business reality. To many students, a curricular internship is the first contact with the work market. The present work analyses this discipline in the context of the Master in Tourism Planning and Management of the University of Vigo. The research universe encompasses 182 internships, which took place from 2008 to 2014. Data was collected through structured questionnaires, which aimed to obtain information on the students' specific areas of interest within the tourism industry, their level of satisfaction with the internship program and whether they were hired by the host company afterwards. The findings show that both parts—students and companies—are highly satisfied with the experience in great majority of cases, and that curricular internships have been an indispensable tool for preparing these students to the demanding tourism industry labor market.
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