Improving work-based learning in schools

Abstract

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Assessment and validation practices in the Vocational Education and Training system: an App for students and practitioners

“…Work-based learning is incorporated in upper secondary programmes in different ways, depending on how the education system itself is organized. It is typically an essential component in school-based vocational education programmes (Musset, 2019).…”

“…Workplaces are powerful learning environments: technical skills can be acquired from expert practitioners using real-life equipment, while also acquiring essential soft skills such as teamwork and communication (Musset, 2019). However, "applied learning that takes place through school-based or student-led enterprises, workplace simulations, workshops and even project-based learning in the classroom can also be labeled as WBL" (European Training Foundation, 2013, p. 13).…”

TVET Graduate Employability: Mismatching Traits Between Supply and Demand

“…WBL is a learning approach that involves working experience in which students need to go through a learning process in an institution or organization to gain the experience and apply the skills in the related industries according to what is required in an actual working environment (Musset, 2019). WBL is an approach used for students at school level for them to obtain experience through work.…”

Experiencing the workplace

“…(McKechnie, 2014 [3]) for example, drawing on data from a large-scale, multi-faceted Scottish research project, find it to be commonplace for working students to:…”