Work-based Learning: the educational policy and intellectual context and their consequences

Abstract

The main aim of this paper is to explain the policy and intellectual background that has created the context in UK universities for work-based degrees at Honours and Master Level and inaugurated a tradition of researching the different forms of learning that occur at work. To do so, I am going to: • describe the background to the emergence of Work-based Learning in the UK • explain the parallel debates about learning that have spurred a massive interest in researching learning at work • identify the consequences of this two developments