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Supporting research on vocational higher education

Discussions with staff in both universities and colleges identified a need to foster research and evaluation to inform our understanding of vocational learning across further and higher education.

As a direct response the SLN agreed to fund a number of short vocational learning research projects. Our aim was to stimulate practitioner research designed to both inform and improve practice.

The 21 research projects covered the following broad areas:

• Foundation degrees
• students’ experiences of vocational HE in FECs and HEIs
• curriculum development and planning on vocational courses
• progression from level 3 into HE for vocational learners
• working with employers to develop and promote learning

All of the projects were completed over the summer of 2008. For further details about SLN research contact Adam Stewart (a.stewart@brighton.ac.uk). If you wish to find out more about individual projects then please contact the researchers direct.