Work-based learning

This page indexes the various information and resource services currently available throughout HR Zone on the subject of Work-based learning. It is one of several Professional Themes where we are categorising the services available from the site.

Resources:

Within the HR Zone and TrainingZONE Resources areas there are a number of dedicated areas relating to Work-based learning:

• Blackwell’s Bookstore list
  • 10 titles on “Work-based learning”, including:
    • Learning How to Learn: Based on the Works of L. Ron Hubbard
    • The Management of Work Based Learning
    • Work Based Learning: The New Frontier of Management Development
    
    
  • 15 books containing “Workplace learning” in the title including:
    • Workplace learning : debating five critical questions of theory and practice / Robert W. Rowden, editor.
    • Learning Unlimited: Practical Strategies and Techniques for Transforming Learning in the Workplace
    • Workplace learning / W. Franklin Spikes, editor.

• The TrainingZONE Library contains a number of useful documents for download for those involved in assessment and verification of NVQs.

• For some in depth information about the government’s New Deal scheme, read our Expert Guide: How to: Get the best from New Deal

• also worth checking out is How to: Establish and run a Work Experience Scheme

• GetFeedback.net have partnered with HR Zone and TrainingZONE to provide members with an extensive range of survey, evaluation, benchmarking, appraisal tools to enable these functions to be carried out easily, quickly and online to support workbased learning.

• Similarly, Onlineprofiles.com have partnered with HR Zone and TrainingZONE to provide members with information on
  • Career Advantage
  • Improving Performance at Work
  • Communication and Problem Solving
  • Understanding Others at Work
  as part of the learning and management process.

• Our presentation of Government pages offers access to advice on
  • Individual Learning Accounts
    
  • Adult learners and adult learning
    

Jobs

• We display a wide range of positions available for people in HR and Training roles in support of work-based learning in our CareerZONE jobs pages.

• For businesses looking to recruit from a highly targetted audience in our professional communities we also run a Recruitment Resource Centre

News and Information:

We regularly cover the issue of work-based learning in our TrainingZONE news pages. Enter ‘work-based learning’ into the Search box on that page to list relevant stories.

Here’s a selection of article titles:

• Case study: Developing retail managers across islands
• TSC final report: Improvements still needed, but in-house training does best
• Action Learning scores a hit with HR and training professionals
• NTO Council: We weren’t consulted over Key Skills reforms
• The Learning Summit: Ken Mayhew, Director, SKOPE on ‘high skills’

Community Features:

If you’ve got a question about any aspect of work-based learning, why not post it to Any Answers? where responses are sent back to you direct.