Sandwich- Course in Higher Education and Entrepreneurship Awareness: Case of the Graduates from University Apprenticeship Training Centre, Corsica

Long limited to level V and VI courses often intended for students who failed academically sandwich courses radically tarnish this typical image and gradually gain ground in higher education Increasing the average graduation rate ensuring a better vocational integration this training system has proven to be a path to excellence and a pathway to employment Sandwich courses in higher education seems to stay the course in a gloomy social and economic context especially among young graduates Such a situation is first due to learning reasons graduation rate promotion majors but ultimately sandwich courses pull out of the game in the workforce market by potentiating concurrently occupational integration graduates employability and entrepreneurship awareness CFA Univ Corsica a regional leader in sandwich courses after completion of secondary studies 60 of students in Corsica is the structuring player in the island economy insofar as almost 8000 island companies will have to be sold within the next 10 year

The International Mobility of Students Apprentices at the Heart of Building a Skills Economy: the Example of the Corsican Territory

At a time of exacerbated globalization, education, and more generallytraining, is a key factor for our society, at the heart of territories challenged to renew themselves in the face of the emergence around the globeof new centers of economic and demographic gravity, with their ownmodels. Training, and its link with working life, is a real challenge toface, in the near future, the technological, economic, political and environmental revolutions that we are already facing. Beyond what is calledsandwich training or continuing vocational training in Higher Education,the current challenge is indeed around lifelong learning, old concept butwhose forms always call for an actualization in modernity. At the heart ofa small island territory like Corsica, this challenge is all the more crucialto take up as it foreshadows its attractiveness in a context of glocalisation now durably anchored. In an ever-changing global environment, withmoving landmarks, increasingly complex personal and professional lives,and where everything that seemed well compartmentalized yesterdayfaces increasing porosity, the purpose of this contribution is to explainthat the international mobility of students apprentices, at the heart of theconstruction of a skills economy, is a major strategic issue for the development and structuring of a small territory such as Corsica

« Regional human capital development policy and Sandwich-placement trainingin higher education: lessons learned from the pioneering example of the Universityof Corsica in a small island economy »

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Choose one’s Professional Future and Sandwich Training in Higher Education: Experiences and Perspectives from CFA University in Corsica

In France, the field of lifelong learning has undergone many changes since 2014 according to the laws that have been promulgated. While the reform on vocational training for employment and social democracy finalized the decentralization of vocational training by giving regions the means for a more coherent action and placed them as a pilot for the construction of training policies, the recent law for the freedom to choose one's professional future recentralises the regulation of continuing vocational training and sandwich courses. This development will not fail to impact the governance of the CFA, especially those of Higher Education anchored in the small territories. Faced with this major structural issue in the specific context of a small island economy, the University Center for Apprenticeship Training in the Corsican region strives, for a decade, to contribute to the enhancement of the professional integration of work-study students from the University of Corsica, by the development and the durability of determining factors characteristic of a small territorial area in search of structuration. After having highlighted the qualitative results resulting from the activity dynamics of the CFA University in Corsica, this contribution will analyze the perspectives drawn from the exemplary nature of the latter in the context of a new law that is supposed to contribute to the regional structuring of a knowledge and competence economy

The Vocational Integration of Students-Apprentices in the Context of a Pandemic Crisis: Feedback from the University CFA in Corsica

The COVID-19 pandemic has generated major economic impacts in the vast majority of countries, including falling GDP and global trade, massive job losses, deficits and increased public debt. If quasi-generalized interventionist economic policies have made it possible to cushion the paralysis of the productive devices, the short-term global outlook remains very uncertain. In this gloomy context, what will be the situation on the labour market, and in particular the vocational integration of students? Corsica presents the example of a small island territory in search of a regional development scheme based on the economy of knowledge and competence. In this major structural perspective, the University Apprenticeship Training Centre (CFA UNIV) in the Corsican region has been striving, for a decade, to contribute to the enhancement of students-apprentices vocational integration from the University of Corsica. Within the scope of its activities, are the monitoring and evaluation of the students-apprentices’ professional integration from the University of Corsica. Since 2011, the carrying out the annual surveys on students-apprentices’ future from the University of Corsica has demonstrated the capacity of the sandwich course training in Higher Education simultaneously to boost the employability of skilled human capital and the growth of local business structuring. This contribution will aim to synthesize ten years of CFA UNIV experience and will endeavour to analyse the localized consequences of a global pandemic crisis on the nature of the vocational integration student-apprentices from the University of Corsica in a small territory island

" Sandwich-Course Training in Higher Education as a Major Strategic Thrust Regional Policy of Professional Training: Lessons Learned From the Pioneering Example of the University Institute of Technology Corsica "

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L'Alternance dans l'Enseignement Supérieur comme axe stratégique majeur au cœur de la structuration et de l'attractivité d'un territoire : les enseignements tirés de l'exemplarité de l'IUT de Corse

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