• AlickMunzara

  Author

• NhamoMashavira

  Author

• JeofreyMtemeri

  Author

The study sought to interrogate the alignment of the university’s curriculum
to industrial practice and establish the factors that compromised effective
implementation of the work-related learning (WRL) programme from a mentors’
perspective. The study employed a qualitative research design and the study
participants were selected through the purposive sampling technique. The data was
solicited through unstructured interviews and the interviewees comprised nine
academic mentors and twenty four company mentors. The study established that the
key factor that caused the misalignment between the university’s curriculum and
industrial practice was the lack of collaboration between the academic mentors and
company mentors during course design. It also established that the main factors that
affect the effective implementation of the WRL programme were ineffective
communication of the university curriculum to the company mentors and poor
collaboration between the academic mentors and the company mentors during
supervision and assessment of the students’ performance.

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