Challenges FHEQ Student Journey

1. Partnering With Employers
Christopher Costigan
Director of Academic Collaborations, BPP University

2. Outcomes
Challenges
FHEQ Requirements
The Student Journey
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3. QAA Chapter B10
o “A range of work-based learning that
may involve delivering full
programmes, individual modules or
elements of programmes for a
specific employer, or otherwise using
the workplace as a site of learning”
o “placement learning or work-based
learning necessary to achieve the
relevant learning outcomes “
o “[due diligence] might simply involve
checking information at Companies
House”
o “degree-awarding bodies may
agree to delivery organisation
arranging for a third party to provide
specific learning opportunities such
as placements or work-based
learning”

4. Challenges
Employer Requirements:
•Speed;
•Validation of internal training;
•Teaching the programme;
•Bespoke modules/programmes.
High volume of partners / low volume of students – approval
and monitoring.
Degree Apprenticeships – degree-level WBL in new contexts
Sales/BD teams need adequate training

5. FHEQ
Level 4: holders will have the qualities and transferable skills
necessary for employment requiring the exercise of some
personal responsibility
Level 5: holders will have the qualities and transferable skills
necessary for employment requiring the exercise of personal
responsibility and decision-making.
Level 6: holders will have the qualities and transferable skills
necessary for employment requiring the exercise of initiative and
personal responsibility and decision-making in complex and
unpredictable contexts
Level 7: [same as Level 6] plus demonstrate self-direction and
originality in tackling and solving problems, and act
autonomously in planning and implementing tasks.

6. Student
Journey
• Learning designed by the HEI, but realised in the workplace,
not through instruction but experience
• The ‘learning contract’: negotiate and identify specific tasks
which will intervene to enable the student to realise the
knowledge, skills and behaviours to meet the learning
outcomes of the module/programme
• Key mechanism for the student, HEI and mentor to ensure that
the learner remains on track within the learning journey
• Student Support:
• checklists of competencies or critical incident diaries (self-reflection);
• work-place mentors;
• academic/link-tutors
• employers; and
• student learning communities.