Aiming University Learning @ Work

Welcome to the Aiming University Learning @ Work (AUL@W) Project website!  This exciting project aims to create a strategic shift within higher education institutions towards work related learning as a means of enhancing students' long-term employability. This will be achieved through the active involvement of academic staff, collaboration with employers, sector-wide research and, most importantly, the energy, ideas and feedback from students. The AUL@W Project will explore and develop new models for embedding work related learning within the curriculum for non-vocational subjects.

AUL@W is a three year project funded by a £1.2m grant from the Scottish Funding Council.  The project partners are the University of Glasgow, Glasgow Caledonian University and the University of St Andrews, with the invaluable support of a diverse range of employers.  The non-vocational subject areas invloved in the Project are: Biosciences, Business & Management, English Language, History and Mathematics at the University of Glasgow; Psychology at Glasgow Caledonian University; and Physics & Astronomy at the University of St Andrews.

AUL@W is an ambitious project and this website introduces you to the work in progress and challenges you to think about the contribution you or your organisation might make.    How will you get involved and contribute to using work related learning to enhance students' employability? Please share your views.