founded 1982 headquarters sheffield england website www.asetonline.org aset is a professional body in the united kingdom founded in 1982 for placement and employability staff . aset is an educational charity run by work based learning practitioners for work based learning practitioners and offers support advice guidance and representation to all professionals who work in the field . it provides training for over 1300 staff managing sandwich and other forms of work placements . promoting a focus on the integration of work and learning aset has provided leadership in the development of guidelines in many areas and also the promotion and dissemination of best practices . aset works closely to achieve its aims with bodies such as the department for education and skills universities uk the higher education academy the quality assurance agency for higher education and ncwe . the main aims of aset are to provide strategic leadership for the sector and influence policy makers champion the concept of work based learning advise on best practice for managing placements provide training and facilitate the sharing of good practice for placement and employability staff offer representation advice and support to all professionals working in the field external links edit official website the placement and employability professionals body guardian newspaper article a guardian newspaper article about aset and its work . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title aset professional body & oldid 647089734 categories teacher associations based in the united kingdom navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 february 2015 at 12 01 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view