Using the KSBs to relate academic requirements to on-the-job skills

Williams, Sarah

Abstract

Degree apprenticeships combine academic learning at a higher education institution with professional skills learned ‘on the job’. The Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship (PCDA) incorporates academic content based on the national policing curriculum and operationally practised knowledge, skills and behaviours (KSBs). However, there is evidence that students are struggling to relate academic learning to professional practice. This chapter explores how using the KSBs in academic delivery provides an opportunity to fuse pedagogy with practical policing skills. This can help students discover how academic excellence is directly transferable to the practical skills they use daily. It further suggests that is an essential step towards encouraging the critical thinking skills necessary in today’s police service.

• Online Publication Date: Oct 22, 2024
• Publication Date: Oct 22, 2024
• Deposit Date: Jun 26, 2025
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 125-143
• Book Title: The University Beat: Critical Reflections on the Delivery of Police Education in England and Wales.
• Chapter Number: 8
• ISBN: 9783031684302
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68431-9_8
• Keywords: KSBs; knowledge, skills and behaviours
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/14599972