There are a range of relevant Government strategies/policies for HE:

• Interactive partnerships  with business for economic growth and recovery
• Increased emphasis on collaboration between education providers
• Supporting employer innovation and entrepreneurship
• Workforce development –Progression from vocational programmes into HE
• Widening participation

Increasing numbers of students are opting to learn in the work-place:

• WBL is therefore becoming more strategically important

Good practice is slowly emerging but not widespread in e.g.

• pedagogic models
• progression
• use of ICT
• sustainable partnerships
• understanding costing models and measurement of impact
• quality assurance
• how best for institutions to scale-up and prepare for work-based learning

Institutions can benefit from assessing their performance

• against what the sector perceives as “mature” - in order to inform policies/plans