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

Work‐based learning in US higher education policy

The purpose of this paper is to discuss how US institutions of higher education make appreciable use of work‐based learning options, but their attention to experiential education…

Practice‐based learning in entrepreneurship education: A means of connecting knowledge producers and users

The purpose of this paper is to propose a practice‐based entrepreneurship education programme which enhances collaboration between educational institutions and the small business…

From work‐based learning to organisational development: A case study in learning interventions in a large company

This paper studies the training and other learning‐related interventions that senior managers typically use to influence organisational capability and relate it to the programmes…

Beyond a naturally occurring ethnography: the work‐based researcher

The purpose of this paper is to explore the contrast between the approach to research taken by academic ethnographers and that taken by work‐based researchers. Van Manen claims…

Accrediting informal learning: drivers, challenges and HE responses

Higher education institutions (HEIs) can face barriers implementing the accreditation of informal learning, despite many institutions having developed policies and strategies to…

Cross‐university collaboration for work‐place learning: a case study

Research into skills level of the workforce in the West Midlands in England has identified a shortage of graduate skills and that these are needed for the region to regain its…

Doing Work‐Based Research: Approaches to Enquiry for Insider‐Researchers

Rediscovering Apprenticeship: Research Findings of the International Network on Innovative Apprenticeship (INAP)

The Work‐Based Learning Student Handbook Palgrave Study Skills

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