Workshadowing is a valuable technique of careers education based in the workplace. Schools have begun to use it over the past few years, but its role in higher education has been badly neglected. This article analyses one exception - a scheme at Cambridge University. It stresses the benefits to participating companies as well as to students and organizers, and its particular value in higher education. The problems encountered highlight the need to develop an effective implementation framework, and to redefine what our notions of what workshadowing should be.
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