Enrolment, student retention and attrition in the tourism management program.

This paper examines the factors motivating students to enrol in the Tourism Management program at Champlain College, St-Lambert and why a large number of students abandon the program before obtaining their DEC. There is a great deal of literature on student attrition, however there is little consensus on why students withdraw from college programs and the results cannot be easily generalized to this particular set of students at this time. Understanding the factors that influenced the students to choose Tourism Management at Champlain, St-Lambert and why they then leave before completing the six semesters will help with student success and with the marketing of the program.||Résumé : Ce travail s'intéresse aux facteurs qui motivent les étudiants à s'inscrire au programme de tourisme offert au Collège Champlain de St-Lambert. Il cherche à établir les raisons qui font en sorte qu'un si grand nombre d'étudiants abandonnent le programme avant d'obtenir leur DEC. Plusieurs recherches ont été effectuées sur l'abandon scolaire, mais il n'y a pas de consensus quant aux raisons pour lesquelles les étudiants se retirent du programme collégial. Actuellement, il est difficile d'établir des liens entre les résultats de ces recherches et ce groupe d'étudiants. La compréhension des facteurs qui influencent les étudiants à choisir le tourisme au Collège Champlain et les raisons qui font en sorte qu'ils quittent avant d'avoir complété leur formation, nous permettront d'améliorer le taux de rétention des étudiants dans ce programme. De plus, cela favorisera le marketing du programme.

The ethics of an incoming cohort of students in a college professional police technology program

Since ethics is such a predominant subject of interest on one hand, and graduating from a two or three-year college police technology program is the first step towards a police career un Quebec on the other, this study will look at the ethics of an incoming cohort of students in a two or three-year college professional police technology program. One of the aims will be to develop a profile of young people wishing to pursue a career in policing.||Résumé : Dans un premier temps, étant donné que l'éthique est un sujet d'intérêt majeur et que, dans un deuxième temps, un diplôme en techniques policières dans un programme collégial de deux ou trois ans est un prérequis pour une carrière policière au Québec, cette étude se penchera sur l'éthique d'une cohorte d'étudiants d'un tel programme. Un des buts de cette étude sera de déterminer le profil des jeunes qui désirent poursuivre une carrière policière.

Relatório da prática de ensino supervisionada na Escola Secundária Gabriel Pereira, agrupamento de escolas n,º 4 de Évora EB 2,3 conde de Vilalva e EB1 Jardim de Infância do Bacelo

Este relatório está inserido no âmbito da disciplina Prática de Ensino Supervisionada (PES), que permitirá a obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ensino de Educação Física nos Ensinos Básico e Secundário. O relatório de estágio aborda o trabalho desenvolvido realizado durante o ano lectivo 2009/201O, como professor estagiário, na Escola EB 2,3 Conde de Vilalva, na Escola Secundária Gabriel Pereira e na Escola Básica 1-Jardim de Infância do Bacelo. No final do estágio foi possível afirmar que o que aprendemos ao longo deste ano lectivo nos acompanhará para o resto da vida profissional e social, uma vez que este estágio curricular veio complementar a formação adquirida durante a Licenciatura, auxiliando na incrementação das competências técnico­ científicas, sociais e pessoais, indispensáveis a esta actividade profissional. ABSTRACT: This report is inserted in the supervised teaching subject, as known as Prática de Ensino Supervisionada (PES), which purpose is to obtain Master's degree in Physical Education in primary and secondary education. The stage report deals with all the work developed during 2009/201O school year, as a student teacher, in Escola EB 2,3 Conde de Vilalva, Escola Secundária Gabriel Pereira and in Escola Básica 1-Jardim de Infância do Bacelo. At the end of the stage, it was possible to state that what we have learned past this year will be useful and will be with us for the rest of our professional and social life due the formation acquired during graduation, improving technical, scientific, social and personal skills that are vital and indispensable to this professional activity.

How to Achieve Professional Skills in Higher Education?

During the last decade, higher education has tried to focus education on the achievement of professional skills. It is interesting to see how the learning strategies implemented may facilitate or make more difficult the achievement of competencies. By dealing with the challenge of a competency-based education approach, higher education points out the need of knowing how to build such competencies, i.e. how to design a learning strategy. Not much importance has been given to this issue, probably because the competencies can be confused with abilities, skills and attitudes and, therefore, the model can be associated to in- or out-of-classroom activities without a strategy to articulate the knowledge acquired with the cultural, social and economic contexts of the community and labor spheres, i.e., as a whole (Tobón, 2005). This paper analyzes the epistemological development of the competency-based approach in higher education, focusing on the implementation of professional competencies in the Sociology degree “Licenciatura en Sociología”, in two campuses of the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California: Ensenada and Mexicali. This paper describes how competencies are built and explores different theoretical trends, their conceptualization and formation, based on in-depth interviews applied to students and teachers. It provides a mixed study to understand, based on the student’s point of view, the achievements of this study program in terms of professional competencies.