A FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING INDUSTRIAL TRAINING IN MANAGEMENT

Industrialists often complain that management graduates are far from reality. As a remedy, institutes of higher education have introduced “industrial training” as a component in academic programmes. A reason attributed for failure of training programmes is inappropriate assessment. Therefore, the training programme should be of structured type and allow for the assessment of the trainee′s level of accomplishment in familiarisation with the working environment, in knowledge enhancement and in ability to apply the concepts and theories learned.