.... Assessment Higher education Students Work experience Industrial and commercial work experience placements have been a feature of vocational undergraduate degree and diploma courses for over 25 years. Those involved in such placements (student, employer, university) value the benefits derived...

... year of the degree was retained via a five‐week period of work experience along with a work‐based project. This paper provides a short report on this feature of work‐based learning. The Manchester Metropolitan University is a large institution with a wide range of subject provision and a diverse...

... of Retailing and Marketing at the Manchester Metropolitan University. Co‐operation Curriculum Higher education Management development Mentoring Open learning Retailing Work experience Universities Within the rapidly changing world of higher education links between universities and industry...

...Alan Mumford It is argued that management development has been too concerned with inputs instead of outputs. The author′s research on learning styles is described and his most recent work on how managers learn from work experience is discussed. This is shown to be driven by four approaches...