文档介绍：Higher Education and the Workplace – supporting employer engagement in engineering and physical science
Richard Dales 1 and Carol Arlett 2
Project Co-ordinator, HE Academy Engineering Subject Centre and Research Fellow, Coventry University.
Centre Manager, HE Academy Engineering Subject Centre.
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Key Words: Work-based learning; workforce development; Skills; engineering; physical sciences
Abstract
Departments are looking to enhance their capability and capacity to deliver innovative work-based learning (WBL) solutions to support the government’s skills agenda. This paper draws on the experiences of a project investigating issues relating to workforce development and the learning experience within the workplace, focusing on engineering and physical sciences.
Introduction
Over the next decade in the UK it seems likely, considering the demographic trend, that Higher Education (HE) and industry will be in petition to recruit students or employees, respectively. One way to counter this could be through meaningful employer engagement by HE. This has meshed with a perceived need by government that the UK workforce needs to have ‘higher-level’ skills, if it is to petitive in global markets.
Two government White Papers on skills from the Department for Education and Skills (DfES, 2003 & 2005), proposed that post-16 provision should be more resp