Progression to Higher Education Work Based Learning

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Progression to Higher Education Work Based
Learning
Alan Martin Jason Clear Ronnie Louden
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Foundation Degrees

• Crowd Safety Management
• Protective Security Management
• Security Systems Management

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Entry Requirements

• Be working in the relevant sector
• Be prepared to study alongside work
• Be committed to gaining a degree
• No academic prerequisite

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Entry Routes

• Varied
• After licence to practise qualification
• After vocational training courses
• Career aspiration (another chance)

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Course Characteristics

• Two year programme
• Vocational modules
• Academic modules
• Relevant to current employment needs
• Operational vocational tutors (tee-shirt and
  scars)

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Mode of Study and Learning

• Maximum use of the Internet (VLE)
• Series of 2-day workshops on Campus
• Relevant to real work environment
• Inter-student collaboration
• Negotiation

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Assessment

• Assignments that are relevant to individual
  student work experience
• Written reports
• Negotiation, within parameters

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Student Support

• Personal and Professional Development module
  (transition to academic studying)
• On-line communication with module tutor
• All material available via VLE
• Encourage inter-student communication
• BUT, still challenges to be overcome!

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Benefits to Employees

• (First) Opportunity to gain HE qualification
• Learn and earn (minimal disruption to job)
• Course very relevant to job
• Stand out from the crowd
• Recognition as a professional (in an industry
  that has no real tradition of HE)

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Benefits to Employers

• Raise knowledge and skills of workforce
• Minimal disruption to business (learn and earn)
• Course very relevant to job
• Minimal cost
• Marketing advantage over competitors

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Typical Student

• Not usually from academic background
• Works in the sector, often self-employed, very
  good at their job
• Mature (age gt25)
• Aspiration to go further
• Uncertain about entering university
• Capable of further professional development

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Further Progression

• Top up Professional Studies (Honours)
• MA in Leadership and Management
• MSc in Business Continuity and Emergency
  Management

All work based programmes
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Where Do Work Based Students Learn?
Here are some typical learning environments .
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For more information
Please contact Alan Martin Faculty of
Enterprise and Innovation Buckinghamshire New
University Wellesbourne Campus Kingshill
Road High Wycombe HP13 5BB alan.martin_at_bucks.ac.u
k 01494 472 031
www.crowdsafetymanagement.co.uk
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For more information
Please contact Alan Martin Faculty of
Enterprise and Innovation Buckinghamshire New
University Wellesbourne Campus Kingshill
Road High Wycombe HP13 5BB alan.martin_at_bucks.ac.u
k 01494 472 031
www.crowdsafetymanagement.co.uk
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Thank you for this opportunity to explain our
approach to work based learning.Jason, Ronnie
and I are happy to answer your questions.