ABSTRACT
The project arose from development work undertaken in 1987/88 on work-based learning contracts which is reported by Gerald Dearden in the Learning from Experience Trust publication, Learning while Earning. In this early work, the viability of learning contracts as a method of enabling and assessing work-based learning was tested. Four universities, Coventry, Oxford Brookes, Sheffield Hallam and Wolverhampton each worked with a partner company or organisation, Jaguar Cars, Wimpy International, the Manpower Services Commission (later the Training Agency) head office at Moorfoot, Sheffield, and JBS Computer Services, Wednesbury, respectively.
