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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Apprenticeship

What do we call a period when a university student go to a company to learn skills?

Which word is better?

apprenticeship

novitiate

Co-Op

I am translating my transcript into English but I don't know which is the write word for that.

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Medical student intern at a hospital. Teachers and other professionals do a practicum . There are also work-study programs , which are primarily a way of earning tuition fees.

— Mister Micawber

  • Medical student intern at a hospital.
  • Teachers and other professionals do a practicum .
  • There are also work-study programs , which are primarily a way of earning tuition fees.
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Medical student intern at a hospital. Teachers and other professionals do a practicum. There are also work-study programs, which are primarily a way of earning tuition fees.

(Apprenticeships are for tradesmen and novitiates are for religious orders.)
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thanks.

I am studying mechanical engineering. there is a course that engineering students have to go to a factory to design and learn skills .

for example a mechanical engineering student can go to general motor.

What's the word for that?
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Co-ops are usually for a semester and the summer.

Internships are usually in the summer (and generally don't pay as well).

There are the terms used at American universities. I don't know about in other nations.
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