The document summarizes a pilot test of the Work Based Learning Maturity Toolkit at UWIC to assess its usefulness and identify areas for improvement. Key findings from the pilot included: - WBL at UWIC is currently fragmented with no overarching policy. - The toolkit helped identify a need to formalize WBL activities and develop an institutional WBL strategy and procedures to guide staff. - Stakeholders found the toolkit accurately represented WBL maturity but that it was not suitable for large groups and could be made more user-friendly. Recommendations for improving the toolkit focused on making it more interactive and usable by converting it to an online format with reflection questions, an action planning section

1. Work Based Learning Maturity Toolkit:UWIC Pilot.Andrew HaldaneLoretta Newman-Ford

2. Why use the WBL Maturity Toolkit? Test the Toolkit to establish whether it is fit-for purpose, robust and user-friendly before advertising it to the wider UWIC community

3. explore how the toolkit could help to formulate an institutional WBL strategy.

4. A way of assessing UWIC’s current state of play in terms of WBL and to inform future developments in this area.Area of focusThe toolkit was piloted at:Institutional level

5. School level

6. Programme level Our own focus was also to consider:how well the toolkit described WBL maturity (from the user perspective)

7. ways in which the toolkit could be used/customised

8. what actions could be taken to improve WBL at UWICMethodologyConduct face-to-face meetings with stakeholders using a semi-structured interview approachApproach key stakeholdersDevelop action plan to address areas of ‘immaturity’ and also for strategising WBLSend Toolkit URL