The Work-Based Learning Student Handbook

This is the original full-length handbook which caters to the specific needs of work-based learners. Compiled by work-based learning experts from institutions across the world, this hands-on guide helps new learners to successfully navigate academia and get the most out of their university experience. It provides clear guidance on the processes involved in getting recognition for prior learning, setting up learning contracts and completing work-based projects. Real-life case studies, useful tips and reflective activities are embedded throughout to enrich students' learning experience.

This is the essential companion for all undergraduates on work-based learning degrees across a range of disciplines, including business and management, health and social care, law, sport and exercise science and tourism. It will also be an invaluable resource for work-based learning tutors, workplace supervisors and organisations with an interest in work-based learning.

New to this Edition:
- Brand new chapter from a new contributor entitled 'Developing Yourself, Developing Your Organisations'
- Packed with real-life case studies, including new international cases and cases on topics such as transferable skills and being entrepreneurial
- New content on building employment skills, using social media for your learning and global terminologies around work-based learning

Dr Ruth Helyer is Head of Workforce Development (Research & Policy) at Teesside University and a National Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Actively developing the work-based learning agenda since the early 2000s, she has become an internationally acknowledged expert in this area, involved in the development of numerous working students and their companies. As the Programme Leader for the innovative Negotiated Learning Scheme at Teesside University she championed work-based learning, resulting in the University becoming one of the forerunners in the UK sector in business engagement activities.

Ruth is also the editor of, Facilitating Work-Based Learning: a handbook for tutors (Palgrave, 2015) and Editor in Chief of the Emerald peer-reviewed journal Higher Education Skills and Work-Based Learning.
Dr Ruth Helyer is Head of Workforce Development (Research & Policy) at Teesside University and a National Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Actively developing the work-based learning agenda since the early 2000s, she has become an internationally acknowledged expert in this area, involved in the development of numerous working students and their companies. As the Programme Leader for the innovative Negotiated Learning Scheme at Teesside University she championed work-based learning, resulting in the University becoming one of the forerunners in the UK sector in business engagement activities.

Ruth is also the editor of, Facilitating Work-Based Learning: a handbook for tutors (Palgrave, 2015) and Editor in Chief of the Emerald peer-reviewed journal Higher Education Skills and Work-Based Learning.