Lessons from Covey: win-win principles for university-employer engagement

Purpose – In the UK, universities are coming under increasing pressure from government to strengthen university-employer co-operation and engagement in areas such as student placements,graduate internships, knowledge exchange, enterprise and work-based learning. Both the Higher Education (HE) White Paper (BIS, 2011) and the Wilson Review (BIS, 2012) encourage universities to focus on this age…