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Work placements and degree performance: do placements lead to better marks or do better students do placements? how can we incorporate findings into wider practice?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Jones, Chris Higson, Helen E. |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | Over recent years there has been a strong move to make UK degrees more applicable to the world of work and to include work placements as an integral part of a degree programme is one way of achieving this. Many universities, particularly in professional and professionally-related disciplines, have incorporated such kinds of work experience for some years, although there is evidence of a decline in placements (Little and Harvey 2007, Blake and Summers 2007). More recently the work placement has again been under scrutiny in the UK as such activity becomes central to government policies (Higher Ambitions 2009). |
| Starting Page | 29 |
| Ending Page | 31 |
| Page Count | 3 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://publications.aston.ac.uk/27285/1/Work_placements_and_degree_performance.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
