Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning: Volume 4 Issue 1

Theory to practice: Canalside Studio, a case study

The purpose of this study is to look at the experiences of university academic staff setting up a small computer games studio to provide work placement opportunities for…

Training the trainer – lessons from the new South Africa

– The purpose of this paper is to consider some challenges involved in delivering a programme for the education of corporate trainers in the new South African economy.

Professional standards, competence and capability

– The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the idea of competence in its various forms provides a sufficient basis for developing standards of professional practice.

Approaches to supervising work-based learning students’ workplace research

The purpose of this paper is to outline a small research project designed to explore the practices of the UK work-based learning (WBL) tutors in facilitating formal research…

Guidelines for supporting placement learning via video communications technologies

Current drivers in higher education have led to the questioning of traditional placement support methods. Within many programmes, students undertaking practice-based learning…

Halifax Community Bank: a learning society within a UK organisation

Students investigated whether the commonly accepted net promoter score was an accurate way of measuring the quality of service, whether presenteeism was just as corrosive as…

Professional artefacts: embodying ideas in work-based learning

The purpose of this paper is to present and examine the addition of a “professional artefact” to the course requirements for the BA Honours Professional Practice (BAPP) (Arts…

Learning, Work and Practice: New Understandings

Editorial

2013 Awards for Excellence