Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning

The journal of the University Vocational Awards Council

ISSN: 2042-3896


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About the Journal

Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning (HESWBL) is the official journal of the University Vocational Awards Council (UVAC) to be launched in 2011. 

Developing the role of higher education institutions in meeting the needs of the economy through high level skills and work-based learning is a policy priority among governments particularly in the areas of employer engagement, graduate employability, workforce development and widening participation.  Focusing specifically on the interface between higher education and the workplace, HESWBL will publish academic and scholarly practitioner-focused papers providing broad international coverage of issues, developments and innovation in higher level skills, higher level work-based learning and higher education. 

The editorial policy of the journal is to facilitate relevant and rigorous national and international debate, research and practice that is impactful.  The journal is targeted at academics researching in the area of higher level skills, training providers and work based learning practitioners who provide or support the delivery of higher level skills, those who direct policy at institutional and national levels and those whose learning is the focus of this effort.

Editorial Objectives

The explicit aim of HESWBL is the dissemination of insightful and original research and practice in the field of higher education, the workplace and skills development. We welcome novel, evidence based contributions that can inform policy as well as practical grounded contribution.  The Journal takes no particular epistemological stance and a wide range of research traditions are encouraged especially if they provide innovative ideas in conceptual developments. HESWBL is preferentially disposed towards empirical work rather than pure theory although not against articles which extend the debate concerning skills, higher education and workplace practice. Although HESWBL has a UK perspective we actively encourage European and global contributions from scholars using multi-disciplinary approaches
 

Publishes

HESWBL will be an outlet for research that is:
•        based on rigorous, high quality scholarly work of international standing,
•        from a diverse range of methodological, philosophical and theoretical approaches,
•        situated within mainly from an applied research tradition,
•        well written and of clear relevance and interest to Journal’s audiences
 

HESWBL is receptive to controversial topics, and new, as well as developments that challenge existing paradigms. HESWBL will not generally be receptive to pure opinion or unsupported conjecture, although viewpoint and commentary articles are welcome where they can meet appropriate standards of rigour. Authors who wish to submit such articles are encouraged to contact the editors prior to commencing work.
 

Coverage

The coverage of the journal includes, but is not limited to:
• Development, marketing, delivery, validation and evaluation of higher level work-based learning
• Identification of how skills gaps and shortages can be addressed through higher level work-based learning
• International approaches to higher level work-based learning
• New technologies in the delivery and validation of higher level work-based learning
• Partnership approaches in the development and delivery of higher level work-based learning programmes and professional development
• Employer-developed training programmes as higher education qualifications
• Funding of higher level work-based learning
• Widening participation and social mobility in higher level work-based learning programmes
• Good practice examples of higher level work-based learning

Unique Attributes

• This is the only journal focusing specifically on higher level skills, higher level work-based learning and higher education. 
• Utilising the UVAC membership (over 100 HEIs, FECs and partner organisations), the journal demonstrates a unique, strong and independent rooting in the HE and FE sectors.    

Key Benefits
 

• The journal is designed to have impact with practitioners both academic and commercial as well as with policy makers. Indeed one of the journal's goals is to lead evidence based policy development
• The international reach of the journal will enable work to be read by those who need it or ought to hear about it.  The journal’s editorial commitment is to produce a Journal that is readable and most importantly read. 
  

Key Journal Audiences

United Kingdom and international HE research staff with an interest in higher level vocational learning, United Kingdom and international HE staff delivering vocational and work-based provision, further education colleges, agency staff (HEFCE, LSC, QAA, QCA etc.), LLNs, SSCs, RDAs, awarding bodies, corporate universities, consultants, employers, HR staff, students of education and related subjects

Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning is available as part of an online subscription to the Emerald Education Subject Collection. For more information, please email collections@emeraldinsight.com.

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