This is a mirror site of devmts.co.uk > publications and contains articles and reports written or co-authored by Dr Stan Lester, a consultant in professional development and education. Papers are in date order. Please report any problems with links to info<at>devmts.co.uk
► "Higher and Degree Apprenticeships: a perspective from UK professions", written 2025, forthcoming in Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
► Higher and Degree Apprenticeships as professional entry and progression routes, UVAC research paper (2025)
► Professional (self-)regulation and qualified status in the UK, paper for UVAC (2025)
► “Integrated professional development pathways: learning-integrated work?”, pp. 125-141 in Barr, M. (ed). Approaches to work-based learning in higher education. Routledge (2025)
► Assessment challenges in integrated professional development, UVAC conceptual paper 3 (2024)
► Beyond Degree Apprenticeships: conceptualising integrated professional development, UVAC conceptual paper 1 (2024)
► “Success factors in consultancy projects: making ‘maps that work’”, Work-based Learning 12 (2), 1-16 (2024)
► (Stan Lester & Mandy Crawford-Lee) “Learning from digital adaptations to the pandemic: enhancing work-based higher education”, Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning (2023)
► Can mobile learning work when work-based learners prefer laptops?, short research report, Middlesex University (2023)
► “Reconsidering negotiated work-based learning in the digital age”, summary conference paper (2022)
► "Accessibility and inclusion in digital learning", presentation for the IDEAL project conference (2022)
► “Architecture in the UK: a study in professional entry-routes and entry-gates”, Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning 12 (1), 1-12 (2022)
► (Stan Lester, Darryll Bravenboer & Finbar Lillis) Tripartite reviews: a signature pedagogy for police education, Middlesex University (2021)
► “New technology and professional work”, Professions and Professionalism 10 (1), 1-15 (2020)
► (Stan Lester & Jens Hofmann) “Some pedagogical observations on using augmented reality in a vocational practicum”, British Journal of Educational Technology 51 (3), 645-656 (2020)
► “Creating conditions for sustainable Degree Apprenticeships in England”, Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning 10 (5), 701-714 (2020)
► (Stan Lester & Darryll Bravenboer) Sustainable Degree Apprenticeships, Middlesex University/Edge Foundation (2020)
► “Sequential schooling or lifelong learning? International frameworks through the lens of English higher professional and vocational education”, Education + Training 60 (2), 213-224 (2018)
► (Stan Lester, Anna Koniotaki & Jolanta Religa) “ComProCom: a revised model of occupational competence”, Education + Training (2018)
► “Reconciling activity-based descriptions of competence with professional work”, Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning 7 (4), 381-393 (2017)
► (Stan Lester & Jolanta Religa) “’Competence’ and occupational standards: observations from six European countries”, Education and Training 59 (2), 201-214 (2017)
► Competence: a definition and a model, ComProCom (2017)
► Describing competence in professional occupations: some working concepts and models, poster from the project ComProCom (2017)
► Developing professional competence standards, final report of the project ComProCom (2017)
► Professional Competence Standards: Guide to concepts and development, ComProCom (2017)
► "Competence, capability and context", presentation for UALL Work and Learning conference, London (2016)
► “The development of self-regulation in four UK professional communities”, Professions and Professionalism 6 (1), 1-14 (2016)
► “Higher vocational education and training in England”, pp. 44-75 in Hippach-Schneider, U. and Schneider, V. (eds.), Tertiary vocational education in Europe: examples from six education systems. Bonn: Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (2016). (The second link is to the full report, 4.5Mb).
► (Stan Lester, Darryll Bravenboer & Neville Webb) Work-integrated degrees: context, engagement, practice and quality, literature review for the Quality Assurance Agency (2016)
► (Darryll Bravenboer & Stan Lester) “Towards an integrated approach to professional competence and academic qualification”, Education + Training 58 (4), 409-421 (2016)
► “Practice as Research: developing the workplace project”, pp. 117-133 in V. Storey & K. Hesbol (eds.), Contemporary approaches to dissertation development and research methods. Hershey PA, IGI Global (2016)
► Professionals and professions, essay (2016)
► “A qualification system fit for adults? Revisiting some ideas from the University for Industry”, Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning 5 (2), 102-116 (2015)
► “The European Qualifications Framework: a technical critique”, Research in Post-Compulsory Education 20 (2), 159-172 (2015)
► "Competence standards and frameworks: some lessons from the United Kingdom", Edukacja ustawiczna Dorosłych 3 (90), 132-141 (2015).
► “Professional versus occupational perspectives on work competence”, Research in Post-Compulsory Education 19 (3), 276–286 (2014)
► “Professional standards, competence and capability”, Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning 4 (1), 31-43 (2014)
► “Professional competence standards and frameworks in the UK”, Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education 39 (1), 38-52 (2014)
► “Professional organisation and self-regulation in family mediation in England and Wales”, Family Law 44, 1338-1341, 1472-1475, and 1610-1613 (2014)
► Association and self-regulation in smaller UK professions, Avista Press (2014)
► “Developing a European practitioner certificate: the TRAVORS2 project”, Research in Post-Compulsory Education 18 (3), 297-308 (2013)
► “Creating original knowledge in and for the workplace”, Studies in Continuing Education 34 (3), 267-280 (2012)
► (Carol Costley & Stan Lester) “Work-based doctorates: professional extension at the highest levels”,Studies in Higher Education 37 (3), 257-269 (2012)
► “Bridging the gap from student to capable practitioner”, paper developed from project application Educon (University of Oslo) (2012)
► “The UK Qualifications and Credit Framework: a critique”, Journal of Vocational Education and Training 63 (2), 205-216 (2011)
► "Professionalisation and professionalism in UK further education and training: a commentary", paper for the LSRN National Research Event (2011)
► Work-based assessment principles and practice, TRAVORS2 project document (2011)
► (Stan Lester & Carol Costley) “Work-based learning at higher education level: value, practice and critique”, Studies in Higher Education 35 (5), 561-575 (2010)
► Some notes on European Directives, professions and qualifications frameworks, input to the Irish Bologna experts conference, Dublin (April 2010)
► “Doctoral-level qualifications outside of universities”, Work Based Learning 1 (2), 1010rtb (2010)
► “Professional bodies’ advanced designations and awards,” Bristol, Professional Associations Research Network: PARN Occasional Paper (2009)
► "The Conservation Technician Qualification: an employer-led development", Research in Post-Compulsory Education 14 (1), 43-55 (2009)
► Qualification and credit levels, technical discussion paper, Stan Lester Developments (2009)
► “Routes to qualified status: practices and trends among UK professional bodies,” Studies in Higher Education 34 (2), 223-236 (2009)
► Routes and requirements for becoming professionally qualified, Professional Associations Research Network (2008)
► “Putting conservation’s professional qualification in context”, The Conservator 31, 5-15 (2008)
► Soft systems methodology, resource paper (2008)
► Evidence-based practice, resource paper (2007)
► “Professional practice projects: APEL or development?,” Journal of Workplace Learning 19 (3), 188-202 (2007)
► (Glyn Owen, Mick Fletcher & Stan Lester) Size matters: economies of scale in schools and colleges, Learning and Skills Development Agency (2006)
► "Conceptualising the practitioner doctorate", Studies in Higher Education 29 (6), 757-770 (2004)
► (Stan Lester & Mark Colmar) Delivering Entry to Employment in rural areas, report for the Learning and Skills Development Agency (2004)
► "Qualifications in professional development: a discussion with reference to conservators in the UK and Ireland", Studies in Continuing Education 25 (3), 269-283 (2003)
► "Becoming a profession: conservation in the United Kingdom," Journal of the Society of Archivists 23 (1), 87-94 (2002)
► "Negotiated work-based learning: from delivery to realisation”, Capability 5 (1), 6-9 (2002)
► (Kathy Doncaster & Stan Lester) "Capability and its development: experiences from a work-based doctorate", Studies in Higher Education 27 (1), 91-101 (2002)
► "Can the National Qualification Frameworks support learner-managed learning", seminar paper for ICLML, Middlesex University (2002)
► "Professional accreditation and National Vocational Qualifications: an exchange of experience", Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 53 (4), 573-588 (2001)
► "Assessing professional practice 'in the field': experiences from the PACR scheme," Research in Post-Compulsory Education 6 (2), 175-185 (2001)
► "The construction of qualification levels and frameworks: issues from three UK projects," Higher Education Quarterly 55 (4), 396-415 (2001)
► "Learning for the 21st Century", chapter in J Kincheloe & D Weil (eds) Standards and Schooling in the United States: an encyclopedia, Santa Barbara CA, ABC-Clio (2001)
► (Stan Lester, Catherine Drury, Linda Lockhart & Sarah Zoob) Factors influencing mature workers’ non-completion of National Vocational Qualifications, report for the Department for Education and Employment (2000)
► "Rediscovering the value of wisdom", seminar notes for Higher Education for Capability conference (2000)
► (Stan Lester & Jenny Chapman) "Beyond conventional competence: a study of capable people", article for Capability (2000)
► "The Professional Accreditation of Conservator-Restorers: developing a competence-based professional assessment system," Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 24 (4), 411-423 (2000)
► "Professional bodies, CPD and informal learning: the case of conservation," Continuing Professional Development 2 (4), 110-121 (1999)
► Vocational qualifications in land-based and related industries: uptake, progression, obstacles and opportunities, Lantra (1999)
► (Stan Lester, David Thomson & Sarah Zoob) Women in Agriculture: development needs and opportunities, South Devon & Dartmoor LEADER II (1999)
► "Assessing the self-managing learner: a contradiction in terms?" in D O'Reilly, L Cunningham & S Lester (eds) Developing the Capable Practitioner: professional capability through higher education, Kogan Page (1999)
► "From map-reader to map-maker: moving beyond knowledge and competence" in D O'Reilly, L Cunningham & S Lester (eds) Developing the Capable Practitioner: professional capability through higher education, Kogan Page (1999)
► "Vocational qualifications in practice and principle: lessons from agriculture", Research in Post-Compulsory Education 4 (1), 23-38 (1999)
► An introduction to phenomenological research, resource paper (1999)
► "Professional pathways: a case for measurements in more than one dimension", Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education 20 (3), 237-249 (1995)
► “Professional qualifications and continuing development: a practitioner perspective”, Capability 1 (4), 16-22 (1995)
► "Beyond Knowledge and Competence: towards a framework for professional education", Capability 1 (3), 44-52 (1995)
► (Stan Lester & Sarah Zoob) Business advice and training in rural areas: access and coherence, National Rural Education and Training Strategy Group (1995)
► "Management standards: a critical approach", Competency 2 (1) 28-31, (1994)