Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning: Volume 2 Issue 1

Employer responsive provision: workforce development through work‐based learning

Tracey White

The purpose of this paper, from a work‐based learning practitioner perspective, is to present an insight into some of the challenges, benefits and impacts associated with…

Can work‐based learning programmes help companies to become learning organisations?

Kevin Ions, Ann Minton

The idea of the learning organisation as an aspiration for a continuous process of learning has become widely accepted by many organisations. The purpose of this paper is to…

Employability skills development: strategy, evaluation and impact

Georgina Andrews, Marilyn Russell

The purpose of this paper is to report how one University has sought to test the effectiveness of strategies to enhance employability skills, and the key themes which emerged from…

Changing policies, their impact on the provision of work‐based learning and the development of an e‐portfolio based pedagogy for WBL

Alison Felce, Emma Purnell

The purpose of this paper is to identify how key external and internal policies can impact on the internal policies of a University in the UK. It explains how the internal…

Down the rabbit‐hole: Routinised practices, Dewey and teacher training in the lifelong learning sector

Alison Iredale

The purpose of this paper is to explore the ideas of John Dewey on experience and experiential learning. The context is that of trainee teachers participating in a higher…

Academic excellence as selection criteria among Malaysian employers

Junaidah Hashim

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether or not performance of employees is determined by merit of their academic excellence, which is measured by cumulative grade point…

Corporate governance research applied at a private university

Andreas Kyriakos Georgiou, Nicos Koussis, Ioannis Violaris

The purpose of this paper is to review the evidence regarding the link between accounting education and the industry, with particular emphasis on the links between accounting…

Editorial

Paul Gibbs