WORK-INTEGRATED UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING AND TRANSPORT LOGISTICS AT THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY

摘要

Under the policy of outcome-based and work-integrated education (OBE and WIE) in Hong Kong higher education, it is required to integrate school-based learning with work-based learning so that learning at one place reinforces and motivate learning at the other. At the same time, linking students and faculty with the industry while engaging knowledgeable workers of the industry in the teaching and learning activities. This paper first introduces the curriculum of the undergraduate curriculum needed by students before entering the WIE programmes and maritime transport industry. It then explains how the WIE programmes are designed, implemented and evaluated in the Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in collaboration with the Industrial Centre and Student Affairs Office of PolyU, government departments, shipping firms, co-op associations and voluntary services. These programmes are creditbearing and non-credit-bearing programmes which include Workplace Training Schemes, the Preferred Graduate Development Programme, the overseas exchange under the International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE), and community service training.