Learning from PEQF delivery: Balancing the academic with the practical

As part of a consortium of four Universities, Canterbury Christ Church University has been delivering the Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship (PCDA) and Degree Holder Entry Programme (DHEP) pathways of the Police Education Qualifications Framework for just over three years and have just graduated its first few cohorts. Taking feedback from students, police training staff, university lecturers and work-based assessors, this paper discusses what has been learned from this delivery, what changes have been made to programmes and what the future should hold for these programmes.