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Embedding Sustainability in University Work Experience Placements: A De Montfort University Model
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Onyido, Tochukwu Ben C.; Allman, Zoe; Hardaker, Pamela; Rughani, Deepa; Letinov, Allan – Education & Training, 2022
Purpose: The paper looks at the feasibility of university placements supporting small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) to operate in a sustainable manner. Due to size and resource constraints, many SMEs may regard sustainability more as a burden than a value-adding commercial strategy. Design/methodology/approach: A two-year study was conducted…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Models, Student Placement, Work Experience
An Unfinished Experiment: Ambiguity and Conflict in the Implementation of Higher Skills Policy
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Hordern, Jim – Research Papers in Education, 2015
The higher skills policy of the UK New Labour Government emerged from the recommendations of the Leitch Review of Skills, and was implemented in England between 2007 and 2010. The policy aimed to encourage higher education (HE) institutions to engage with employers and employer representative bodies to design and deliver HE provision that…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Program Implementation, Ambiguity (Context), Conflict
Working for Skills. Final Report.
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Bibby, Elizabeth; Jones, Andy; Marsland, Phil – 2000
A project aimed to use United Kingdom full-time undergraduate student work experience as the vehicle for development of the students' skills to improve their subsequent employability upon graduation. It took an employer-led approach to develop a model transferable to other employers and higher education (HE) institutions. Arrangements were made…
Descriptors: Colleges, Developed Nations, Diffusion (Communication), Education Work Relationship
Employability and Employers: The Missing Piece of the Jigsaw. IES Report 361.
Tamkin, P.; Hillage, J. – 1999
The approaches to employability being taken by United Kingdom employers were examined in a study that included three components: a literature review to develop a definition of employability and isolate its key elements; case studies of six organizations to identify employers' approaches to employability; and examination of related literature on…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Development, Case Studies, Check Lists
Workplace Learning. Perspectives on Education, Training and Work.
Forrester, Keith; And Others – 1995
This book examines workplace learning in the United Kingdom within the context of the changing world of education and training, adult learners/learning, and stakeholder roles in employee development. Discussed in the first three chapters are the following topics: the current debates over vocational education and training and their links to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Case Studies, Educational Needs
Engineering Curriculum Development: Balancing Employer Needs and National Interest--A Case Study.
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Buniyamin, Norlida; Mohamad, Zainuddin – 2000
The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University Teknologi MARA, Malaysia, developed an undergraduate-level engineering curriculum that balances national interests with those of employers and academics. The curriculum was based on materials posted at the Internet sites of universities in the United States, United Kingdom, and Malaysia…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development