Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning: Volume 8 Issue 1

Guest editorial

Andy Price

Work-based learning for enterprise education? The case of Liverpool John Moores University “live” civic engagement projects for students

David Gibson, Vasilios Tavlaridis

The purpose of this paper is to present the results of using work-based learning (WBL) pedagogy within the curriculum to embed enterprise skills within the Liverpool John Moores…

Supporting student innovation through an engagement, employability and employment ecosystem

Anita Walsh, Philip Powell

The purpose of this paper is to explore how students, full-time and part-time, may be supported in becoming ambidextrous – developing “intrapreneurial” skills and capabilities, as…

Embedding research and enterprise into the curriculum: Adopting Student as Producer as a theoretical framework

Amy Brown

The purpose of this paper is to review a year-long project entitled SaP@Parsons, which aims to bridge the gap between our current foundation degree curriculum and a revised…

Promoting interdisciplinarity through an intensive entrepreneurship education post-graduate workshop

Sharyn McDonald, Frank Gertsen, Claus A. Foss Rosenstand, Christian Tollestrup

While creativity and innovation are found within many disciplines, the opportunity to develop a tangible skill set and share ideas with contemporaries can be limited within the…

The impact of workplace placement on students’ entrepreneurial attitude

Louise Manning, Patricia Parrott

The purpose of this paper is to determine the impact of a workplace placement on the student participants’ self-reported entrepreneurial attitude (EA).

Introducing a People’s Academy into Higher Education: A coproduction approach to sustained well-being

Sally Elizabeth Hardy, Rebecca Malby, Nina Hallett, Anam Farooq, Carol Chamley, Gwendoline Young, Xavier Hilts White, Warren Turner

The introduction of a People’s Academy (PA) within the School of Health and Social Care (HSC) at London South Bank University has created ripples across the pond that is Higher…

Enhancing graduate employability in product design: A case study exploring approaches taken on a BSc product design course

Matthew Alan Watkins, Martin Higginson, Philip Richard Clarke

The purpose of this paper is to present a case study to discuss approaches taken within a traditional undergraduate degree course to embed employability skills, encourage student…

Social Innovation Excubator: Developing transformational work-based learning in the Relational University

Javier Castro-Spila

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new framework for developing social innovation competencies in social sciences within the agenda of the Relational University. It…