This book presents the most comprehensive discussion of emerging trends in higher education in the Asia Pacific, ranging from graduate attributes to integrated workplace learning, with an in-depth focus on work readiness, employability and career development. It draws on the relationship between graduate attributes and employability, as well as…

Studies six summer interns in an engineering development center. Shows that for the interns and their more experienced colleagues, learning did not precede activity but rather was the means by which they remained attuned to activity and able to function. Finds cognition was distributed not only among people but also among people and their tools;…

Focusing on the intellectual, cognitive mental domain of learning, the article discusses the kind of mental work one is expected to perform and the social relationships one engages in academic learning and field learning. (SB)

Describes an internship program at Colby-Sawyer College that prepares women for entry-level positions leading to management. The program develops the administrative ability needed to make decisions, solve problems, think logically, apply analytical methods, and understand human relations. (JOW)