Purpose: This paper seeks to challenge the view that student part time employment detracts from academic attainment and presents evidence that when linked to formal undergraduate study provides rich learning experiences. It also explores the extent to which formerly accepted pre-requisites for work based learning (WBL) apply in this model and how…

Reports on a study of how business students' views of work are altered by the industrial training year of the course. It was found that there is no evidence to support the hypothesis that changes in orientations to work of the students studied would result from the one year's experience of industrial training. (CT)