Towards a strategy for workplace learning

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HEFCE commissioned this study to help ensure a concerted approach across the Council to future strategies on workplace learning and related matters of employer engagement, and to feed into the wider review of its teaching funding method. It was undertaken between March and November 2005 by a joint research team from KPMG and the Open University’s Centre for Higher Education Research and Information (CHERI). It aimed to inform HEFCE thinking on developing a strategy for workplace learning.

The study was undertaken through reviews of relevant literature and published reports, semi-structured interviews with a wide range of stakeholders (including higher education providers and a number of Sector Skills Councils), and a series of discussions on specific topics with members of the Steering Group and other interested parties.

The study found that higher education institutional strategies for learning and teaching embraced a range of objectives, which in turn embraced a range of aspects of employability and work-related learning, including links to widening participation and lifelong learning. Institutional approaches to workplace learning are diverse and reach into other institutional functions (including research and development and knowledge exchange) although these are not necessarily co-ordinated in a strategic manner.

Towards a strategy for workplace learning

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