...Miriam Zukas; Janice Malcolm Purpose This paper aims to examine the everyday practices of academic work in social science to understand better academics’ learning. It also asks how academic work is enacted in relation to the discipline, department and university, taking temporality as its starting...

... group, especially university students. This paper explores university student internship as a new labour market institution that has the potential of enhancing youth employability in Greece. Design/methodology/approach In order to answer the main research questions, an explorative case study...

...Richard Dealtry; Lindsay Ryan; Ross Morriss Purpose This article outlines the experience and approach of an Australian university in developing and managing education program partnerships within industry. Design/methodology/approach Describes how the university has established a specialist...

...Richard Dealtry; Jorge F.S. Gomes; Pia Hurmelinna; Virgílio Amaral; Kirsimarja Blomqvist Purpose This article investigates the reasons for collaboration and the barriers to cooperation between universities and industry organizations. In an increasingly integrated world, cooperation between...

...Anne M. Phelan; Aleisha D. Harrington; Eileen Mercer This article examines how a research partnership between a university‐based research centre and a regional health authority operated as a context for promoting and examining continuous learning in the workplace. The article identifies...

...Ian Campbell; Richard Dealtry Captures the researches, experience and current thoughts of two leading professional corporate university and corporate academy solutions designers and developers. Provides a provocative commentary on the quality of current management perspectives and practice...

...Christopher Prince This paper explores a number of important issues surrounding accrediting work‐based learning for the award of university level qualifications. The paper is divided into sections. Section one of the paper defines accreditation and explores its historical development in the UK...

...Richard Dealtry Previous articles in this series, on the evolution of the corporate university as a dynamic future state business development platform, have described processes and methodologies for achieving both organisation and strategic learning re‐orientation for success. “Managing...

...Gordon Prestoungrange Focuses on new organizational learning initiatives and the rise of corporate universities. Considers why many organizations are shunning the traditional universities in order to create their own tailor made route to learning. Highlights the changes brought about by Internet...

... customers of the university market, that is the students, have very little power. Unlike most markets, the universities are in a position to exclude those customers who are seen as being unhelpful. This matters to the customers because of the major potential impact on their lifetime prospects. If they do...

... and benchmarking issues. A case study of the development of course tutors who have academic responsibility for managing professional courses approved by the Institute of Personnel and Development (IPD) within further education colleges and universities in the North East of England is presented. Considers...