Aim 1

The module aims to facilitate a range of postgraduate and managerial skills to be demonstrated and assessed within a specific vocational work-based environment. Appropriate experience and practice may be gathered in several different, yet complimentary forms all dependent upon each student’s knowledge, personal interest and individual career goals. Examples of differing forms of industrial practice might include a period of internship within industry, the opportunity to mentor/shadow key personnel, contribute to consultancy initiatives or be involved within active project management scheme. Universal module aims include;1.To assimilate knowledge of work and exposure to a diversity of experiences in a work environment, with its diverse mix of social and cultural implications, together with its associated disciplines, responsibilities, and ethics.2.To correlate techniques of reflective learning with work internship in order to illustrate experience and skills appropriate to tourism, hospitality and events and its associated environments.3.To ascertain a deeper awareness of the relationships that exist between theory and practice within management to form a perspective from which personal and professional benefit can be gained.In practice, the postgraduate module offers the opportunity to gain valuable experience at an industrial level. This vocational experience contributes directly to the overall academic postgraduate course. Such internships are valued highly by many employers, as they show a student’s ability and aptitude to use skills and experience in a professional environment.For example, the three month internship will form a precursor to the empirical element of the student’s thesis. Postgraduate students undertake a project-based internship that will form the basis of a Masters degree dissertation and should contain a substantial element of analysis, which is then completed within approximately three months following the internship period.