Enhancing Employability in Higher Education through Work Based Learning

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Introduction

   • Dawn A. Morley

   Pages 1-10

3. Setting Up University Infrastructures to Support Students in Work Based Learning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Effective Management of the Tripartite Relationship of Educational Providers, Participants and Employers in Work Based Learning

      • L. Rowe, D. Moss, N. Moore

      Pages 13-31

   3. Personalising Work Based Learning for a Mass and Diverse Market

      • J. Peach, M. Mansfield

      Pages 33-50

   4. Managing Degree Apprenticeships Through a Work Based Learning Framework: Opportunities and Challenges

      • L. Rowe

      Pages 51-69

4. Teaching at University to Prepare Students for Work Based Learning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. Use of Simulation as a Tool for Assessment and for Preparing Students for the Realities and Complexities of the Workplace

      • M. Hughes, A. Warren

      Pages 73-89

   3. Utilising Interprofessional Learning to Engender Employability

      • M. Coward, A. Rhodes

      Pages 91-109

5. University Strategies to Optimise Students’ Learning While in the Work Based Learning Setting

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. Embedding Work Based Learning Opportunities into an Undergraduate Curriculum Through Participation in a Touring Dance Company

      • C. Childs

      Pages 113-132

   3. Student Experience of Real-Time Management of Peer Working Groups During Field Trips

      • Dawn A. Morley, A. Diaz, D. Blake, G. Burger, T. Dando, S. Gibbon et al.

      Pages 133-150

6. Supporting and Supervising Work Based Learning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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   2. Building Students’ Emotional Resilience Through Placement Coaching and Mentoring

      • S. Eccles, V. Renaud

      Pages 153-172

   3. The ‘Ebb and Flow’ of Student Learning on Placement

      • Dawn A. Morley

      Pages 173-190

7. Using the University Experience for Work Based Learning for Future Employability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191

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   2. The Role of the Student Ambassador and Its Contribution to Developing Employability Skills: A Creation of Outward Facing Work Roles

      • H. Baker, K. Sela

      Pages 193-211

   3. Enhancing Psychology Students’ Employability Through ‘Practice to Theory’ Learning Following a Professional Training Year

      • N. Winstone, R. Avery

      Pages 213-233

8. Promoting Students’ Work Based Learning for International Collaboration and Employment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235

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   2. Exploring the Power of High-Level Postgraduate International Partnership Work Based Learning Programmes

      • P. Weston, D. Perrin, D. Meakin

      Pages 237-254

This book focuses on a renewed interest in work based learning in higher education. Due to an increased emphasis on employability in the graduate population, supported by wider policy changes, work based learning is becoming an increasingly pressing issue in higher education. The authors detail innovations from a breadth of UK universities, where academics have creatively addressed changes in work based learning structure, pedagogy and support systems. These changes in turn recognise the impact of real-life learning experiences on student progression, on both an academic development and a personally transformative level. Encompassing a wide variety of topics, the examples within the book are supported by theory and carefully detailed practice pedagogy. This valuable edited collection will be of interest to practitioners and scholars of work based learning and higher education, as well as a useful practical guide for academic developers.

• Graduate employment
• University
• Employability skills
• Career development
• Student learning

• Department of Higher Education, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

  Dawn A. Morley

Dawn A. Morley is a lecturer in Higher Education at the University of Surrey, UK.

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