Education + Training: Volume 49 Issue 3

Special issue introduction

Simon Roodhouse

This introduction to the special edition aims to focus on the issues that surround putting work‐based learning into practice in the UK.

Between a rock and a hard place: The role of HE and foundation degrees in workforce development

Nadia Edmond, Yvonne Hillier, Mark Price

The purpose of this article is to explore how higher education (HE) institutions are responding to the workforce remodelling agenda of public services and the emergence of…

Work‐based learning and continuing professional development

Paula Sobiechowska, Maire Maisch

The purpose of this paper is to provide an evaluation of the key features of a work‐based, competency‐led curriculum model of continuing professional development for social…

Developing the health care workforce: A comparison of two work‐based learning models

Barbara Alice Brown, Jacqui Harte, Anne‐Marie Warnes

The purpose of this paper is to share practice on how two approaches to work‐based learning (WBL) are used to develop the knowledge and skills of health care staff with different…

University of Wolverhampton case study: Embedding practical work‐based modules into a traditionally, theoretical programme

Emma Nicholls, Margaret Walsh

This case study aims to provide a critical evaluation of the decision by the University of Wolverhampton's School of Legal Studies to develop a number of work‐based learning…

Engaging with employers in work‐based learning: A foundation degree in applied technology

Richard Benefer

This paper aims to describe the work of Staffordshire University in engaging with local employers and local further education colleges in the development of a Foundation Degree in…

A work‐based learning approach to developing leadership for senior health and social care professionals: A case study from Middlesex University

Katherine Rounce, Annabel Scarfe, Jonathan Garnett

This paper is of a complex and challenging collaboration. It aims to explore the challenges to both higher education (HE) and commissioners that stimulated different thinking and…

Tripartite assessment of learners during practice placements in midwifery pre‐registration programmes

Rowena Doughty, Tina Harris, Moira McLean

The School of Nursing and Midwifery at De Montfort University has been consistently successful in producing student midwives who are, by the end of their chosen programme, fit for…

Using a skills bank for work‐based learning

Deborah Hatfield

The purpose of this paper is to report a work‐based learning innovation developed in response to the skills agenda affecting post‐registration continuing professional development…

Delivering distance education for modern government: the F4Gov programme

Jon Talbot

The purpose of the paper is to describe the development and operation of an innovative, work based, distance delivered foundation degree developed by the University of Chester and…