"Work-based learning (WBL) is an educational strategy that provides students with real-life work experiences where they can apply academic and technical skills and develop their employability.
"[1] It is a series of educational courses which integrate the school or university curriculum with the workplace to create a different learning paradigm.
"Work-based learning deliberately merges theory with practice and acknowledges the intersection of explicit and tacit forms of knowing.
"[2] Most WBL programs are generally university accredited courses, aiming at a win-win situation where the learner's needs and the industry requirement for skilled and talented employees both are met.
Text taken from Level-setting and recognition of learning outcomes: The use of level descriptors in the twenty-first century, 115, Keevey, James; Chakroun, Borhene, UNESCO.