Table of contents
Work Experience: The Perks and Perils for Employers
Gill Sharp, Ruth ShieffDescribes for employers some of the benefits and advantages –long and short term – of taking on students on work experience.They give hints and advice for maximizing the success…
Promoting Lifelong Learning Through Education Partnership: Part Two
John BerkeleyClaims that mechanisms other than school‐employer collaboration areneeded for effective learning. Argues in favour of systems of recordingachievement and planning individual…
Bridging the Academic‐vocational Divide: Curriculum Developments for the Over‐16s
Anne NichollsDiscusses schemes for new qualifications combining academic andvocational areas of the 16‐to 19‐years age group: the TechnologicalBaccalaureate and the Diploma of Vocational…
Management Challenge
David ParkesDetails the Management Challenge competition, run by the BritishInstitute of Management, which aims to encourage links between educationand industry. It teaches the fundamentals…
Swimming Against the Tide: Literacy Dificulties and the Labour Market
John AtkinsonReports research on the vacancy‐filling process among UK employersfor less skilled jobs, and identifies where and how people with literacyshortcomings lose out – based on a survey…
″Open Campus″ – Georgia Links Education with Training
Gill PyattInvestigates the high school drop‐out rate of students in the14‐and 15‐years age group in Georgia, USA. Considers a study of a newinitiative that aims to link education based at…
The Year in Industry Scheme: A Partnership that Works
George HelsbyTraces the origins of the “Year in Industry” scheme,describes its progress over the past five years, highlights theimportance of industry‐based training for pregraduate engineers…
Cultural Change in Further Education: A Management Development Initiative in Hertfordshire
Linda Norman, Sally WatsonDescribes a management development initiative undertaken by theHertfordshire FE service to accelerate the process of cultural changethroughout the area. College managers became…
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