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1 – 10 of 13The purpose of this paper is to outline a small research project designed to explore the practices of the UK work-based learning (WBL) tutors in facilitating formal research…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to outline a small research project designed to explore the practices of the UK work-based learning (WBL) tutors in facilitating formal research projects in the workplace.
Design/methodology/approach
Data were collected using a short questionnaire to practitioners administered electronically and a daylong workshop where issues were discussed in greater depth by participating tutors.
Findings
The main findings are that there is a degree of agreement by WBL tutors about the distinctiveness of WBL research projects; that although there is increasing use of technology to support delivery only one institution is using e-learning as the principal means of delivery; emphasis is upon a relatively small number of techniques and there is a strong preference for qualitative over quantitative methods.
Research limitations/implications
The main limitation of the study is the relatively small number of active participants. However, this is the only study of its kind and the results offer insights into an important element of pedagogic practice in WBL.
Practical implications
The project enabled the identification of common approaches and facilitated discussion of problems shared by WBL tutors across the field. There appears to be a consensus that situated investigation exists within a different contextual framework to traditional academic dissertation projects and that the focus is therefore necessarily on generating data as the basis for active problem solving.
Originality/value
This is the only empirical study of practice in respect of facilitating research projects on WBL programmes in higher education.
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Pawan Budhwar, Andy Crane, Annette Davies, Rick Delbridge, Tim Edwards, Mahmoud Ezzamel, Lloyd Harris, Emmanuel Ogbonna and Robyn Thomas
Wonders whether companies actually have employees best interests at heart across physical, mental and spiritual spheres. Posits that most organizations ignore their workforce  
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Wonders whether companies actually have employees best interests at heart across physical, mental and spiritual spheres. Posits that most organizations ignore their workforce – not even, in many cases, describing workers as assets! Describes many studies to back up this claim in theis work based on the 2002 Employment Research Unit Annual Conference, in Cardiff, Wales.
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Bill Ross and Bob Morris
The most important news at this moment is that the PCIF Annual Conference and Dinner will take place on 16–17 September 1992, at the Anugraha Conference Centre, Engelfield Green…
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The most important news at this moment is that the PCIF Annual Conference and Dinner will take place on 16–17 September 1992, at the Anugraha Conference Centre, Engelfield Green, Egham, Surrey. The Conference will open with a keynote address by John Budgen, Site Director, IBM Havant. We are very pleased to say that the President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, the Right Honourable Michael Heseltine, MP, will address the Federation members at the Annual Conference dinner.