Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning: Volume 6 Issue 3

Scholarly skills as everyday practice – implications for education

Inga Wernersson, Monica Hansen Orwehag

The purpose of this paper is to understand how teachers, nurses and engineers view the use of scholarly skills, such as research and critical thinking, in occupational practice…

The professional and personal values and their revelation through professional doctorates

Paul Gibbs, Kate Maguire

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relationship between individual practitioners’ personal values and their developing professional agentic values. It considers how the…

Work-based learning in a business school context: Artefacts, contracts, learning and challenges

Cheryl Brook, Marjorie Corbridge

The purpose of this paper is to highlight some of the issues involved in ensuring that final year undergraduate students have a meaningful WBL experience as part of their business…

Work-based skills development: a context-engaged approach

Alison Felce, Sandra Perks, David Roberts

The purpose of this paper is to give a successful example of how universities can work with business to identify and address skills needs through a context-engaged approach to…

The development of mapping tool for work-based learning activities

Tomasz Lemanski, Tina Overton

The purpose of this paper is to describe a new tool that can be used to help in the design and evaluation of work-based elements within programmes or to evaluate whole programmes…

Employability development opportunities (EDOs) as measures of students’ enhanced employability

Oluyomi Susan Pitan

Empirical studies in relation to employability development opportunities (EDOs) and university students’ enhanced employability are few, especially in Nigeria. The purpose of this…

Work-based learning: A critical challenge to the subject discipline structures and practices of higher education

Jonathan Garnett

The purpose of this paper is to show how transdisciplinarity is woven into the key curriculum components of individually negotiated work-based learning (WBL) programmes and to…

Editorial

Ruth Helyer