Some reviewed studies indicate improved learning, while others show no positive effect on knowledge and skill acquisition compared to traditional learning methods.
Students, who acquire credentials in fields such as business administration, acquire relatively more general skills compared to students who acquire certificates in engineering or in the skilled trades.
Up to four times more school governor volunteers said they had improved their team building, negotiating, problem solving, financial and business skills compared to other groups of volunteers.
A recent Dutch study that compared 53 professional soccer players to 27 elite runners and swimmers showed the soccer players had impaired cognitive skills compared to the other athletes.
And, if you're keen to specialise, this role could be perfect as it leads into a definite industry and may also need relatively practical skills compared to some of those general research and analysis ones used throughout your degree.
Given that graduates have the remainder of their working life to pick up workplace skills, compared to only a few years spent at university, why the effort to integrate the two spheres?
