P3: The Merit of Sandwich Degrees in Comparison with Post Graduate Conversion Courses - paper from Built Environment Education Annual Conference (BEECON 2006)
This paper considers the relative merits of sandwich undergraduate education compared with postgraduate conversion education in order to see whether the experiential learning in a formal
placement year correlates in any way with the differential learning requirements of a Masters degree. It includes new primary data obtained from students on the final year of their RICS
accredited BSc Honours Degrees concerning how they believe their placement experience has influenced their subsequent educational experience. It comes to the conclusion that a valid
placement can go some way towards meeting the requirements of a Master’s degree as expressed by the Quality Assurance Agency in Higher Education generic benchmarks.
