This is the first volume to address work integrated learning as it applies to university education and for the professions. It details projects that are seeking to establish the significance of integrating experiences in practice and academic settings.

In higher education institutions across the globe, there is a growing interest in integrating classroom learning with experience in practice settings. This interest is the result of an increased emphasis on courses that prepare students for specific occupations in the hopes that upon graduation students will be job-ready.

1. Work-integrated learning: Introduction and orientation (Billett and Henderson).- 2. Conceptual foundations (Billett).- 3. Preparing nurses and engaging preceptors (Newton, Billett, Jolly and Ockerby).- 4. Integrating extensive practice (Molloy & Keating).- 5. Utilising follow throughs in midwifery (Sweet & Glover).- 6. Preparing Human services practitioners (Cartmel) .- 7. Reflective workshops for student nurses (Newton).- 8. Engaging and integrating medical and nursing students (Henderson & Alexander).- 9. Career Development Learning (McIlveen, Brooks, Lichtenberg, Smith, Torjul & Tyler).- 10. Scoping work integrated learning purposes, practices and outcomes (Peach & Gamble).- 11. Health service organisation and student clinical workplace learning opportunities (O’Keefe, McAllister, Stupans).- 12. Institutional practices and imperatives: integrating learning experiences (Henderson).