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The Manchester College provides a range of Level 1–4 courses for 16–19-year-olds and via ten Industry Excellence Academies and 19 Centres of Excellence. Courses are co-created and co-delivered with a range of industry partners, with around 4,500 work experience opportunities provided for students per year.
Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience is a British comedy programme produced for BBC One Wales in which stand up comedian Rhod Gilbert attempts various jobs for a limited time (usually a week). Many of the jobs are conducted within his native Wales although some take him further afield to places including Belgium and Yorkshire .
The farm offers the students the Open College Network-accredited Countryside Stewardship Course, [2] and assists in the transition between school and adult life by offering work-based training opportunities within a green working environment that is adapted to enable successful engagement for its students. The owner of the farm is Lydia Otter. [2]
"Work-based learning (WBL) is an educational strategy that provides students with real-life work experiences where they can apply academic and technical skills and develop their employability." [ 1 ] It is a series of educational courses which integrate the school or university curriculum with the workplace to create a different learning paradigm.
The distinction between workfare and "make work schemes" is that workfare is "work for benefits", either for a company in the public sector, or what has been called "bogus volunteering" for a charity. The work is undertaken as a condition of being able to claim social security payments such as unemployment benefit. This is in contrast to ...
Cooperative education (or co-operative education) is a structured method of combining classroom-based education with practical work experience.. A cooperative education experience, commonly known as a "co-op" or work-study program, provides academic credit for structured work experiences, helping young people in school-to-work transition.
Students gain work experience while being immersed in a foreign work environment, though the position may be paid or unpaid. Dependent upon the programme, a student working abroad may live in a dormitory or apartment with other students or with a "host family", a group of people who live in that country and agree to provide student lodging.
BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service. It is a large network of websites including such high-profile sites as BBC News and Sport, the on-demand video and radio services branded BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds, the children's sites CBBC and CBeebies, and learning services such as Bitesize and Own It.