In this paper we use the term ‘curriculum’ to refer to the activities that are organized for
students to experience whilst on a work placement. These activities are not solely in the
hands of workplace supervisors; indeed the premise of this paper is that many of these
experiences can be, indeed should be, deliberately orchestrated for students and quality
assured by academic or professional staff charged with designing “WIL curricula”. By
focusing on the range of activities that are designed into (or are design-able for) WIL
experiences university-located staff can better assure that students learning in placements
will be maximised. In our conception, most of the curriculum measures refer to things that
university-located staff would be responsible for assuring. The one exception is workplace
supervision, which is incorporated in our model under a broad conception of supervision
(combining both academic and workplace).