Placement Provision: What does research show us?

Event

SRHE

73 Collier Street

London N1 9BE

United Kingdom

Friday, 8 November, 2013 - 00:00

The Wilson Review advocated the promotion of work placements as an effective way of improving employability. Research shows that such integrated work experience also improves degree performance. This session, run jointly with ASET, who have been advocating the importance of work experience for many years, aims to show case current research on work placements and to provoke discussion, inform practitioners and policy makers.

Programme

11:30         Introductions
11:45         Keynote 1: Professor David Guile (Institution of Education)
                  Internships research
12:45         Lunch and networking
13:30         Showcasing of current placement research
14:30         Keynote 2: Jane Artess
                  BIS study on work experience using Futuretrack data
15:30         Final remarks and conclusions
15:45         Close

If you are currently working on research into placements and would like to share your work at this event, please contact us on [email protected]

Convenors:

Professor Helen E Higson OBE, Professor of Higher Education Learning and Management, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Aston University
Dr Richard Blackwell, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Southampton Solent University