All Stories

  1. Higher and Degree Apprenticeships: a perspective from UK professions

    Article • Higher Education Skills and Work-based Learning, November 2025, Emerald

    Dr Stan Lester

  2. Learning from digital adaptations to the pandemic: enhancing work-based higher education

    Article • Higher Education Skills and Work-based Learning, June 2022, Emerald

    Dr Stan Lester

  3. Architecture in the UK: a study in professional entry-routes and entry-gates

    Article • Higher Education Skills and Work-based Learning, April 2021, Emerald

    Dr Stan Lester

  4. Creating conditions for sustainable degree apprenticeships in England

    Article • Higher Education Skills and Work-based Learning, July 2020, Emerald

    Dr Stan Lester

  5. A revised approach to occupational competence

    Article • Education + Training, April 2018, Emerald

    Dr Stan Lester

  6. A critique of international education and qualification frameworks.

    Article • Education + Training, February 2018, Emerald

    Dr Stan Lester

  7. Competence and professional work

    Article • Higher Education Skills and Work-based Learning, September 2017, Emerald

    Dr Stan Lester

  8. “Competence” and occupational standards: observations from six European countries

    Article • Education + Training, February 2017, Emerald

    Dr Stan Lester

  9. Towards an integrated approach to the recognition of professional competence and academic learning

    Article • Education + Training, April 2016, Emerald

    Dr Stan Lester

  10. The Development of Self-Regulation in Four UK Professional Communities

    Article • Professions and Professionalism, February 2016, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences

    Dr Stan Lester

  11. A vocational qualifications system fit for adults? Revisiting some ideas from the university for industry

    Article • Higher Education Skills and Work-based Learning, May 2015, Emerald

    Dr Stan Lester

  12. The European Qualifications Framework: a technical critique

    Article • Research in Post-Compulsory Education, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stan Lester

  13. Professional versus occupational models of work competence

    Article • Research in Post-Compulsory Education, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stan Lester

  14. Professional standards, competence and capability

    Article • Higher Education Skills and Work-based Learning, February 2014, Emerald

    Dr Stan Lester

  15. Developing a European practitioner qualification: the TRAVORS2 project

    Article • Research in Post-Compulsory Education, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stan Lester

  16. Professional competence standards and frameworks in the United Kingdom

    Article • Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, May 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stan Lester

  17. Creating original knowledge in and for the workplace: evidence from a practitioner doctorate

    Article • Studies in Continuing Education, November 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stan Lester

  18. Work-based doctorates: professional extension at the highest levels

    Article • Studies in Higher Education, May 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stan Lester

  19. The UK Qualifications and Credit Framework: a critique

    Article • Journal of Vocational Education and Training, June 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stan Lester

  20. Work‐based learning at higher education level: value, practice and critique

    Article • Studies in Higher Education, July 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stan Lester

  21. The Conservation Technician Qualification: an employer‐led development

    Article • Research in Post-Compulsory Education, March 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stan Lester

  22. Routes to qualified status: practices and trends among UK professional bodies

    Article • Studies in Higher Education, March 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stan Lester

  23. Putting conservation's professional qualification in context

    Article • The Conservator, January 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stan Lester

  24. Professional practice projects: APEL or development?

    Article • Employee Counselling Today, April 2007, Emerald

    Dr Stan Lester

  25. Conceptualizing the practitioner doctorate

    Article • Studies in Higher Education, December 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stan Lester

  26. Qualifications in professional development: a discussion with reference to conservators in the United Kingdom and Ireland

    Article • Studies in Continuing Education, November 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stan Lester

  27. Becoming a Profession: Conservation in the UK

    Article • Journal of the Society of Archivists, April 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stan Lester

  28. Capability and its Development: Experiences from a work-based doctorate

    Article • Studies in Higher Education, February 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stan Lester

  29. Professional accreditation and national vocational qualifications: an exchange of experience

    Article • Journal of Vocational Education and Training, December 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stan Lester

  30. The Construction of Qualification Levels and Frameworks: Issues from Three UK Projects

    Article • Higher Education Quarterly, October 2001, Wiley

    Dr Stan Lester

  31. Assessing professional practice ‘in the field’: experiences from the professional accreditation of conservator–restorers

    Article • Research in Post-Compulsory Education, July 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stan Lester

  32. The Professional Accreditation of Conservator-Restorers: Developing a competence-based professional assessment system

    Article • Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, December 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stan Lester

  33. Vocational qualifications in practice and principle: lessons from agriculture

    Article • Research in Post-Compulsory Education, March 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stan Lester

  34. Professional Pathways: a case for measurements in more than one dimension

    Article • Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, December 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stan Lester