Placement Years Reviews

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 ...

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 ...

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

So here I am in the middle of my Sandwich, Industrial Placement (or what ever else it is called!) year. I think that I can now give a little insight into the benefits of doing this, as there are many! First of all I will try and explain what it actually is and how they apply to University course, I say hopefully! ** What is a Placement ...

I spent a almost a year working as a teaching assistant in Hanover, from September 1996 to July 1997, and while I was ready to come back home by the end of my time there, it really was one of the most rewarding and challenging parts of my education, and I suppose my life in general. I’ll admit it straight up, I did not want to go abroad for ...

When I first started university, the thought of spending a year abroad, away from my home, friends and family, was pretty scary. It was bad enough having to leave home in Leeds to study in Liverpool, I didn’t want to have to go any further away than that. Which was more than slightly worrying as I had just started a four year German with ...

Foreign placements are the best type to take if you have the opportunity as I did. Here's my opinion on things to think about when going abroad. Well first up would be making the decision to do a placement year. In my case the decision was already made when I applied for the course. The course was a business and German sandwich ...

I have just completed an Industrial placement year on a Web Team. I found the job via my job office at Uni. The staff there were helpful. I wanted this dream more than words could say as did about 40 of my fellow students. I was proud as punch when I was told the job was mine. My cool web site, informative CV, smart set of ...

Firstly I should say I did a degree in maths and computing at the University of Surrey. My placement year was in london at the department of social security. I was based in the Computing department known as ASD Computing, whose main role was to offer internal IT functions for the Analytical Services Division. The section also ...

My placement was slightly unusual in that I was in North Africa. So not only did I have to content with the usual problems of a placement, I also had language and cultural difficulties too. In retrospect I would strongly recommend anyone considering a placement to do one. They look good on the CV at job hunting time, you gain loads of experience ...

I've graduated - somehow! My placement was at the city hospital - in the finance dept (my degree was business studies). Since then my current place of work has taken on two placement students, so I've seen how it works today - it hasn;t changed much. Basically you go to an open day, then apply, then go to a flash interview ...

I'm currrently in the final year of my BSC (Hons) in Applied Biochemistry degree at Liverpool John Moores University. One of the main reasons for choosing this course is that it offered a sandwich year. I decided to take this opportunity and applied for a placement place. I chose to go to Stoke-on-Trent and work in a medical research ...

The placement question might not come up at your university but if it does be sure you weigh up the pros and cons carefully. Almost everyone I know went on placement, as did I, and almost everyone I know enjoyed their placement...not everyone I didn't. Well I enjoyed being in Finland, work was alright for a while, there was ice-hockey and ...

I think everyone, if they have the opportunity, should do a placement year either before they go to university or in the middle of their course. Through the Year in Industry scheme I spent a year working at British Steel before I went to university. I personally got a lot out of it - my confidence improved and I at the end of the year I ...

I am currently doing a BSc (Hons) Computer Science degree at Queens University in Belfast. There are two degrees offered – one which has a year out, and one which doesn’t. The university recommends that students take the option that gives them a year out. Now, I am a mature student, and having already spent 7 years in the real ...

I'm currently in my final year at Huddersfield University after doing my placement year in London. I'd always wanted to do a sandwich course from the point I started to apply for Universities - and I'm glad I did, but it's difficult to settle back into normal university life afterwards. I started to apply for a placement in ...

I began my University course in Applied Biology in 1996 at Cardiff University. I had originally opted for a 3 year course but then half way through my first year decided that a Placement Year would look good on my CV and help me to get a career in research. I started to apply for placements in the first term of my second year. My ...

I am almost exactly half way through a placement year with BAE Systems (used to be British Aerospace) as part of my Physics degree. I will say that for the first couple of months I hated it more than anything, I thought my boss was horrible. Slowly though, I have actually started to love this placement! Often there will be a ...

If you are studying medecine and you will have to find the right place for doing your practical time (in Germany it is called AIP: Arzt im Praktikum: Doctor, who is doing his practical time)you should try to find a place in Greenland. Since nearly everybody has the prejudice that there, it is always cold and ugly, there are many free places in the ...

Getting a job can be a nightmare, especially having just left University. I'm not going to go into how to do this, or why I think it is wise not to rush. What I will do is tell you a bit about the most useful thing you can do as part of your University education - A work placement. I believe many Universities make it possible to ...