Preface

This edited book aims to offer a range of insights about the processes and outcomes of enrichening higher education students’ learning through post-work placement interventions. That, that is, using these interventions after students have completed their work placements to enrich those learning experiences and integrate them into the students’ program of study and their learning. Work placements and their integration into the experiences provided in and by higher education institutions are now becoming essential elements of higher education. This is because there are growing demands for these students to secure capacities during their studies that will assist them find employment and be productive upon graduation. Although once restricted to healthcare, law, and education, the use of work placements, work experiences, and practicums of different kinds is now becoming a common element of the higher education provision. However, just providing work placement experiences alone is insufficient. Instead, it is necessary to assist students to draw upon, utilize, and reconcile what they have learnt through their workplace experiences with what they are being taught and are learning through the university-based components of their higher educational programs. Hence, there is a need for educational interventions to engage students in these processes and realize these outcomes.