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Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, Vol. 19, No. 1, 60-67 (1999)

Education and Business Partnerships in the United Kingdom: Initiatives in Search of a Rationale

Michael Weller

University of Reading

Patrick Dillon

University of Reading

Education-business partnership in the United Kingdom has a long history, and the promotion of links between the partners at all levels and in all sectors of the economy has become a service industry in its own right. In 1991, the UK government established a regional network of Education-Business Partnerships (EBPs) in an attempt to coordinate these activities. Education-business links embrace curriculum enrichment for students at all levels of education; professional development for teachers, lecturers, and business employees; and institutional development and mutual benefits arising from collaboration between educational institutions, business, and the wider community. The authors have been involved in projects aimed at fostering education-business links in initial teacher education funded by the UK government, in working with both primary and secondary schools in this field, and in developing resources for companies and EBPs. Drawing on this experience, they will review the development of education-business links in the United Kingdom and raise a number of issues about definition and purpose. In particular, they will discuss the difficulties of establishing an educational framework for industrial, commercial, and business enterprises and the economic and technological processes which operate within them.


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