Purpose – Details the origins and content of the University of Bristol's award‐winning positive working environment (PWE) agenda. Design/methodology/approach – Describes the weaknesses highlighted in a detailed staff survey by The Work Foundation, and how these gave rise to the five...

Purpose – This paper aims to describe how a “learn‐while‐you‐work” foundation degree is helping to nurture and develop the brightest business minds at document‐solutions and delivery company TNT. Design/methodology/approach – Examines the reasons for the program, the form it...

Purpose – Describes how enhancing the specialist medical knowledge of 150 underwriters and claims assessors at Legal & General Assurance Society has helped the company to save thousands of pounds in costs for referring claims to chief medical officers. Design/methodology/approach – Explains...

Purpose – To identify emerging education alternatives to traditional higher education. Design/methodology/approach – To survey and examine three types of alternative providers. Findings – To demonstrate that there are now at least two major providers of professional development in the...

Purpose – This paper aims to clarify the challenges faced by higher education institutions such as budget cuts and the pressure to offer accessible, affordable anytime/anyplace learning and offer a solution in the form of the development of an e‐learning strategy. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to assess the concept of grade inflation in higher education institutions in an effort to determine its prevalence, causes, and strategies that can be implemented to curtail it. Design/methodology/approach – A literature review of the problem is...

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the possibilities of combining foresight techniques and intellectual capital management, as two approaches of participatory strategic management, in higher education institutions. The objective is to generate concrete benefits for prospective strategic...

Purpose – This paper seeks to outline four scenarios developed for the future of the South West Midlands region of England. Like many depressed regions in the UK, the foundation industries that initially developed the region have gone. Manufacturing is continuing to decline and the...

Purpose The purpose of this report is to present the findings of a five-day course for AKEPT – the Malaysian Leadership Academy in the Ministry of Higher Education. The course was held from March 24-28th, 2014, for over 50 lecturers, professors, deputy deans and deans from Malaysian...

Purpose – Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an issue-oriented substantive domain. Nevertheless, there are countless socio-economic, medico-techno-scientific, environmental and ethical philosophical questions that are far from being settled. In pursuit of a more desirable and sustainable...