Partnership for lifelong learning: Canadian community colleges & the hospitality industry
Building and nurturing an active partnership between thecommunity college and the hospitality/tourism industry, thatwill look beyond the scope of currently existing internshipenvironment at the workplace for all workers to enable tolearn continuously in fundamental to the creation of a qualityworkforce.A workforce that can adequately meet the needs of theindustry and boldly face the world of the future.The burning issue is - are partnerships between educatorsand the industry to provide training and education feasible?Cross sectional study was undertaken in the presentenvironment in the Province of Ontario in Canada. This study,through a survey questionnaire gathered data from thehospitality/tourism educators and the managers. Thehypothesis was that the study will show the need for apartners arrangement that will be efficient and effective fordeveloping the full potential of the workforce to pursue theorganizations quality and performance objectives. Anotherexpectation was that it will demonstrate to Canadian CommunityCollege faculties as well as the Human Resource Managers inthe industry the compelling need for collaborative and cooperative thinking on strategy formulation for futuremanagement/employee training programs.This study concludes that partnerships are feasible asthere is evidence of interest on both the sides to theprinciples of collaborative ventures. It recommendsundertaking of a pilot project to test the practicality of aworking relationship.
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1994-08
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Authors: | Ranganathan, Shyam |
Other Persons: | Kelly, Edward (contributor) ; Jacobs, James (contributor) |
Subject: | Learning facilitation |
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