Aproposal for busıness education based on the collabora tion of university and industry

Abstract

Traditional business education programs have long been criticized for failing to meet the needs of the labor market. Cooperative Education were established initially to bridge the gap between theory and practice, allow students an opportunity to apply classroom learning through workplace praxis and make university education accessible to the growing number of students. Cooperative Education programs in Business Administration consist of consecutively and alternately using academic training modules at university and work modules at firms. Since within the last 20 years Cooperative Education has become more and more important worldwide it became a need to discuss the motives and merits of the program and investigate the obstacles to establish it in Turkey. The paper will also focus on the benefits that accrue to the three partners of the system: students, employers and the higher education institutions.