Developing skills via practical training : the Algerian business students' experience

الملخص EN

This study aims to identify acquisition extent of important set of skills during a period of practical training within an Algerian master degree in business.

A history of work placement within higher education, reasons for going to university and benefits of this period in developing skillsare discussed in this paper.

A questionnaire-based survey was administrated to a sample (N=230) of master students in faculty of economics, commerce and management sciences at Farhat Abbas University Setif 1, during a period of practical training in different places of work.

As a result, both of the students' males and females in three departments agreed that they were effective in developing a set of skills, but they order some of it differently and regarded career reasons as the most important.

In the end; getting 'real life' experience was considered as the main benefit of a work placement by the majority of respondents.