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This paper describes industry participation in education through its involvement in the Business Information Technology programme at the University of New South Wales. Although primarily aimed at providing details of the practices followed and the experiences gained, the paper commences with a comprehensive review of the literature on IS education, particularly co-operative education. Industry is involved in all aspects of the programme, but makes a major contribution through provision of industrial training and a colloquium series. There is also interaction with students through leadership courses, recruitment evenings, industry visits and social activities.
The programme has been extraordinarily successful in meeting the needs of industry — it seems likely that a significant part of this success is due to this industry involvement. Most of the practices detailed in this paper are not radical or expensive; many would have application to other disciplines. All aspects of software engineering would benefit from adoption of these practices.
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Dick, G.N., Jones, S.F. (1995). Industry involvement in undergraduate curricula: Reinforcing learning by applying the principles. In: Ibrahim, R.L. (eds) Software Engineering Education. CSEE 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 895. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58951-1_92
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