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Submitted December 18, 2018
Published 2018-12-18

Artículos

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2018): Visión Antataura

The Professional Practicum at the University of Panama: The Case of the Faculty of Economics at the University Regional Center of Azuero, 2013-2017.


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Published: 2018-12-18

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Fleck, C. (2018). The Professional Practicum at the University of Panama: The Case of the Faculty of Economics at the University Regional Center of Azuero, 2013-2017. Visión Antataura, 2(2), 103–118. Retrieved from https://revistas.up.ac.pa/index.php/antataura/article/view/262

Abstract

The professional practicum is the most important option as a graduation work in the Faculty of Economics at CRUA (64% of graduates between 2013 and 2017). An analysis of the experience of this professional practicum was made, using as a methodological procedure of the existing regulatory framework, as well as the reports prepared by the students and the evaluations made by the institutions to each student. 52% of the students realized the practicum in public and private banks, 34% in cooperatives, and 14% in insurance companies; they performed functions closely related to the graduation profile of the career; and the students were evaluated by the organizations where the students did their practicum with "excellent" or "very good" grades. The practicum cost is of about B/. 872.50. The professional practicum represents for the undergraduate student an opportunity to get involved with the working world and it is estimated that about 20% of the students doing the practicum would obtain, upon completing their professional practice, a work contract in the company where they realized their practicum.

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