Education + Training: Volume 50 Issue 5

Graduate training and development: current trends and issues

Helen Connor, Sue Shaw

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a selection of papers on the subject of graduate training and development, covering current trends and issues.

Engaging a new generation of graduates

Sue Shaw, David Fairhurst

The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of generational difference and reflect on how this might impact on organisational approaches to graduate development.

Graduate development in European employment: issues and contradictions

Brenda Little

The purpose of this article is to explore to what extent there are variations in the development of graduates once in employment; to what extent these variations can be explained…

Graduate training: evidence from FUSION projects in Ireland

Cecilia Hegarty, Janet Johnston

This paper aims to explore graduate training through SME‐based project work. The views and behaviours of graduates are examined along with the perceptions of the SMEs and academic…

The formation of professional identity in French apprenti managers

Jacques Angot, Hedley Malloch, Birgit Kleymann

The paper aims to show how professional identity is constructed at a very early stage of initial management education. In so doing, it questions the notion of le métier in…

Graduate development, discursive resources and the employment relationship at BAE Systems

Shirley Jenner

The purpose of this paper is to examine the evolution of an employee opinion survey and to evaluate its impact on the graduate training programme and associated employment…

Case study: developing graduate engineers at Kentz Engineers & Constructors

Hugh O'Donnell, Takis Karallis, Eric Sandelands, James Cassin, Donal O'Neill

The aim of this paper is to outline the approach and process in place within Kentz Engineers & Constructors to develop graduate engineers on an international basis.