International Trailblazers: Work-integrating Higher Education in Selected Higher Education Institutions in the US, England and Denmark, Results of an International Case Study Research Project

The Thematic Report presents the findings of an international case study research project on avant-garde higher educational programmes designed better to prepare learners for the workforce by effectively integrating academic theory and classroom-based learning with professional practice and experiential learning in the workplace. The Report maps five trailblazers’ diverse approaches to work-based learning in higher education across the US, England and Denmark using a case study approach and deploying data triangulation from national and institutional perspectives. The cases differ widely, not least because each country’s diverse institutions frame and shape the HE learning providers’ spaces for action in distinct ways. Nonetheless, the Report concludes with a range of key factors that emerge as pertinent for opening universities and easing access for lifelong learners in Germany.