@article{stora2016sandwichplacement,
  title = {Sandwich-Placement Training in Higher Education as a Shaper of Regional Human Capital Development Policy: Lessons Learned from the Pioneering Example of the University of Corsica in a Small Island Economy},
  author = {Christophe Storaï and Laetita Rinieri},
  year = 2016,
  url = {https://ibimapublishing.com/articles/JELHE/2016/146517/},
  journal = {Journal of e-Learning and Higher Education},
  volume = (2016),
  pages = 17,
  doi = 10.5171/2016.146517,
  abstract = {Employment, and the job market, is changing, quantitatively and qualitatively, and coherent policy of coordinated interventions from the State, the Corsica Regional Council, employer and employee organizations, and the other institutional, economic and social community players is vital to delivering an efficient and top-quality services offer spanning information, guidance, lifelong learning, job-to-education fit, cultivating competencies and leveraging human resources–all both region-wide and at areal level.Over the last few years, the higher education and research landscape has had to contend with some big changes. The University of Corsica–a major component in the island-region’s higher education and research ecosystem–only recently secured a new status as autonomous independent university, under the French ‘LRU’ University Autonomy and Accountabilities reform of 10 August 2007.Given this new landscape, the CTC and the University of Corsica elected to revamp their partnership and develop vocational training in higher education, chiefly through continuing professional education and apprenticeship schemes. Moving towards this goal, the challenge to make higher education an economic sector in itself, turning its knowledge and know-how into an exportable asset is now championed as a major driver of regional development strategy for the island’s economy by everyone involved.After highlighting the specific features of the University of Corsica’s sandwich training programme as pivotal to Corsica island’s Regional Vocational Development Programme Roadmap [‘CPRDF’] strategy, this paper brings an analysis of the lessons learned from the pioneering example of the University of Corsica as a dynamic shaper of regional human capital development policy. The findings of Ministry-sponsored surveys on the transition-to-work track record of the University of Corsica graduates since 2011 are analyzed to gain key learnings on job-to-training fit and structured entrepreneurial fabric in Corsica.
 },
  keywords = {higher education — sandwich training — human capital — school-to-work transition},
  note = Article ID: 146517
}