Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning: Volume 5 Issue 2

A vocational qualifications system fit for adults? Revisiting some ideas from the university for industry

Stan Lester

The purpose of this paper is to make a case for creating a strand of negotiated qualifications in the English (and more generally UK) vocational education and training (VET…

Providing engineers with OARS and EARS: Effects of a skills-based vocational training in Motivational Interviewing for engineers in higher education

Florian E. Klonek, Simone Kauffeld

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a vocational communication skill from the helping professions. Verbal skills in MI are summarized under the acronyms OARS and EARS (open-ended…

Revisiting Communities of Practice – the case of Egyptian graffitists

Amal Abou-Setta

The Egyptian Revolution gave birth to an intriguing community of graffiti artists that have been going through successful social learning processes. The naturally formed learning…

Au fait law placements: An emerged reality or a popular trend in contemporary education?

Nicola Tully, Alex Avramenko

Enhancing student employability and bridging the gap between theory and practice in law education requires a more multifaceted approach than the traditional mix of lectures…

An investigation into blogging as an opportunity for work-integrated learning for journalism students

Ruth Stoker

Blogging has become a well-established method of online communication and publication, used by individuals and organisations to disseminate news, ideas and information. In their…

Developing “employagility”: the 3Es case for live-client learning

Judith Fletcher-Brown, Karen Knibbs, Karen Middleton

The purpose of this paper is to review live-client learning activities in higher education, highlighting a lack of multi-stakeholder evaluation of “learning by doing” pedagogies…

Teaching the College of Policing pre-employment “Certificate in Knowledge of Policing” to undergraduate students: A student and staff evaluation

Ian K. Pepper, Ruth McGrath

The purpose of this paper is to assist in identifying the value to the student of the College of Policing approved Certificate in Knowledge of Policing (CKP), whilst identifying…

Editorial

Ruth Helyer