Placement Years

Placement Years: "Don't Mention That War....Or This One" (2294 words)
by zoe_page_1 - written on 20.06.03 (Very useful, 111 readings)
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I didn’t take a post-A Level Gap year, preferring instead to progress straight from school to university. However, I chose a course that insisted on my 3rd year being spent somewhere else. A lot of universities will tell you that you have to study, or that you have to work. That you have to stay in the UK or that you have to go abroad, but my course gave me 3 options – work placement in the UK, work placement abroad or studying at a university abroad. I suspected right from the start that I would be wanting to do the middle one, and I was right. I’m coming to the end of my year now, and as of September I will be back studying in Manchester. This is a ...

Experience it! (1097 words)
by sohail31 - written on 14.03.02 (Very useful, 377 readings)
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Only 3 months, 25 days, 6 hours and 22 minutes left before I complete my sandwich placement….. Ooops….Sorry, I didn’t mean to put you off already!!!! No, seriously it hasn’t been that bad! Its just got to the stage of my placement where I have had enough of the early morning starts and practically-non-existent social life and frankly can not wait to go back in to my wonderful world of uni (excluding the 10,000+ word dissertation that awaits!) But having said that, I have no regrets about doing this placement. With the increasingly competitive job marketplace, I feel it can only benefit you to have some kind of work ...

Express Review on Placement Years
by mcuizzp2 - written on 01.02.02
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Worth it really - Advantages: Money, Freedom, Great CV booster - Disadvantages: You do have to actually work, Can be placed away from all your friends in a totally new environment