Universities and Colleges

Please click on the links below for a summary of what each of our University or College partners offer. For full details of subject areas, qualifications and fee information download the PDF.

If you are from a University or College and are interested in becoming a Learning through Work partner click here to find out more about the benefits of Learning through Work.

University of Chester (back to top)
Learning through Work students at University of Chester work towards the University's awards in Work-Based & Integrative Studies. Students are able to name their own programme focus (and precise award title) so long as it relates to their area of working practice.

The areas contributing to the Learning through Work scheme are:

• Administration ICT.
• Business & Finance Leadership.
• Business & Management.
• Business Studies.
• Computer Science.
• Conflict Transformation.
• Continuing Professional Development Public Policy Management.
• Education Public Sector Management.
• Exercise & Nutrition Regeneration.
• Health Studies Teaching & Learning.
• Human Resource Management.
• Management & ICT.
• Management Studies.
• Midwifery.
• Nursing Studies.
• Women's Health.

Contact email: lizzy.williams@chester.ac.uk

University of Derby (back to top)
The University of Derby is currently unable to accept individual learners through the LtW scheme wanting individualised  work- based learning programmes. However we will still consider cohorts or groups of learners.

University of the West of England, Bristol (back to top)
Learning through Work has been an integral part of all professional courses within the Faculty of Health and Social Care. It is valued as a realistic way to enhance transferable and clinical skills to support career development. The post-qualifying courses include practice modules, which are designed around specific learning outcomes.

Contact email: Debra.Campbell@uwe.ac.uk

Staffordshire University (back to top)
Staffordshire University recognises the problems of attending courses while working full time. Learning through Work is part of Staffordshire University's approach to adopting a more flexible approach to the method, timing and place of delivery by working with employers to provide new and flexible opportunities for work-based learning, continuing professional development, and in-company provision at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

The faculty of Computing, Engineering and Technology contributes to the Learning through Work scheme.

Contact email: j.r.cochrane@staffs.ac.uk

Wakefield College (back to top)
The subject areas that currently offer the Learning through Work scheme are:

• Glass Manufacturing Management.
• Logistics.
• Supply Chain Management.

Please note that other more general subjects are not covered by the scheme.

Contact email: stephen.hardy@wakefield.ac.uk

Trinity College (Carmarthen) (back to top)
Trinity College is the first HE institution in Wales to offer this learning opportunity with Learning through Work (LtW). We offer a whole range of work-based learning awards at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. All awards consist of a prescribed number of credits at a particular level or levels and the way that credits build up to a particular award is based on the Credit and Qualifications Framework for Wales (CQFW). This allows individuals to gain nationally and internationally recognised university qualifications.

If you are new to studying at HE level you would be well advised to study some individual modules at level 4, starting with a LtW module such as WBL401 Work-based Learning Programme Plan and/or WBL402 Working and Learning: an Introduction to Work-based Higher Education. There are a wide range of other level 4 modules available and all can be put towards a Certificate of Higher Education in Professional Work-based Studies leading to a degree, or can stand alone by themselves.

Subjects currently offered include:

• Research Methods for Work-based Learning
• Improving Personal Effectiveness at Work
• An Introduction to Mentoring
• Work-based Learning Project
• Competency-based Portfolio
• Key Skills Portfolios
• Project Management
• Vocational Welsh
• Bilingualism

Contact email: e.wilson@trinity-cm.ac.uk

The Open University (back to top)
The Open University in the East Midlands (OU) is offering a new programme of training opportunities designed to improve skills, work confidence, productivity and job satisfaction. Building on our successful experience of delivering flexible work-based learning courses and foundation degrees, the OU in the East Midlands is collaborating with learndirect and the East Midlands Development Agency to offer the Foundation Degree in Combined Professional Studies (FdCPS)

The FdCPS is a unique degree that enables you to build a learning programme based on your particular personal and career development needs. A typical FdCPS programme blends academic subject knowledge with authentic work-based learning, which ensures that the learning undertaken is directly relevant to your job and maximises the benefits for you and your employer.

The OU also offers a range of flexible online Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses designed to develop the skills you need to help your career. They are designed to give you new skills, knowledge and ideas that you can immediately apply in practice. Courses normally take no longer than 30 hours to complete, so you can fit your study around your work and your life.

Contact email: east-midlands@open.ac.uk