This paper discusses the ways in which employers view the contribution of work-based learning, how participating learners' experience the provision offered to them and how far work-based programmes can contribute to changing the discourse about learning from one of deficit to one of strengths. It draws on two complementary studies of work based…

The themes of collaboration and partnership lie at the heart of the vision of a range of UK initiatives designed to tackle social exclusion. However, the benefits are extolled and the costs to community groups are minimized. Some of the problems and possibilities for the involvement of community groups in partnerships are considered. Partnerships…

Nontraditional students must negotiate a series of stages in accessing higher education, including their right to participate, attitudes, and approaches to theory-practice. Universities must realize that access for nontraditional students includes providing sustained support in relation to internal and external forces affecting learning. (SK)