Recruitment and training agency Acorn has joined forces with Cardiff Metropolitan University’s Centre for Work Based Learning to launch a foundation degree in applied professional practice.

The two-and-a-half-year degree course will be delivered by Acorn and accredited by the university.

Sarah John, Acorn’s learning & development commercial director, comments: “The motivation behind creating this degree was that it should be mutually beneficial to employers and employees. From a business point of view, the course offers on-the-job learning, improved staff retention rates and demonstrates commitment, by employers, to the development of their managers.”

Learners will spend 14 days out of the office annually, plus an extra induction day in the first year, and later have the chance to turn their degree into a full degree by adding credits.