Dear all,
Emerald Group Publishing is delighted to announce it will be collaborating with the University Vocational Awards Council (UVAC) to publish a new journal focussing on higher education, skills and work based learning: www.emeraldinsight.com/heswbl.htm
UVAC is a not-for-profit membership organisation comprising more than 100 higher education institutions and further education colleges from across the UK. It provides the voice for higher education institutions committed to championing and mainstreaming innovation in higher level vocational learning.
The first issue of HESWBL is due to be published later this year to coincide with the UVAC Annual Conference 2010 in York, 11-12th November. For more information on the UVAC conference please go to: http://www.uvac.ac.uk/0502.html
Developing the role of higher education institutions in meeting the needs of the economy through high level skills and work-based learning is a policy priority among UK governments, opposition parties and is core to a range of new government proposals and policies, particularly in the areas of employer engagement, graduate employability, workforce development and widening participation. Focusing specifically on the interface between higher education and the workplace, Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning (HESWBL) will publish academic and scholarly practitioner-focused papers providing broad international coverage of issues, developments and innovation in higher level skills, higher level work-based learning and higher education.
The coverage of the journal includes, but is not limited to:
• Development, marketing, delivery, validation and evaluation of higher level work-based learning
• Identification of how skills gaps and shortages can be addressed through higher level work-based learning
• International approaches to higher level work-based learning
• New technologies in the delivery and validation of higher level work-based learning
• Partnership approaches in the development and delivery of higher level work-based learning programmes and professional development
• Employer-developed training programmes as higher education qualifications
• Funding of higher level work-based learning
• Widening participation and social mobility in higher level work-based learning programmes
• Good practice examples of higher level work-based learning
For further information, please contact the Editor:
Professor Paul Gibbs
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
www.emeraldinsight.com/heswbl.htm
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