ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews co-operative education and illustrates the discussion by examining the co-op programme in Supply Chain Management at MacEwan University, Canada. The concept of enterprise education has arisen as one of the more discoursed pedagogical orientations in twenty-first century post-secondary business education. MacEwan University started as Grant MacEwan University Community College in 1971 to provide a learner-centred experience with a focus on undergraduate education. The discipline-specific courses in supply chain management then foster students' analytical and problem-solving skills in supply chain management. With the co-operative education component, students are provided with the linkage to the industry and opportunities to operate as a learner and worker conjointly. An over century-long seasoned educational orientation, co-operative education is perhaps more forward-looking than ever before. With inspiration derived from existing examples of apprenticeships, sandwich programmes, and informal observations that students with work experience did better in courses than students without this experience, co-operative education has since experienced a massive resurgence.
