Higher Education and Industry: towards a new partnership for improving engineering education

SUMMARY: From a historical view-point, university and industry have had a long experience of cooperation, with differing results according to the countries, the fields of knowledge or activity, and the particular period. During the last 10-15 years, new trends have appeared within society and one can observe changing roles, in education or in research. In the near future, new concepts and new schemes will be developed for better cooperation between higher education and industry: ‘co-formation’, responsibility-shared education, design of new programmes with a large part for sandwich courses, production of pedagogical resources, joint ventures for special educational programmes and systems ⃛ As far as the partnership is concerned, more than in the past, university and industry have to explore new ways. It is a necessity for both. © 1985, Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.