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Im looking at a course, At RG uni's there is no placement years, but at mid rank ones there is.
Why is this?
Original post by freedom
Im looking at a course, At RG uni's there is no placement years, but at mid rank ones there is.
Why is this?


Because the 'mid'ranking' universities are often ex-polys which have generally specialised in a practical approach for practical subjects.
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Original post by freedom
Im looking at a course, At RG uni's there is no placement years, but at mid rank ones there is.
Why is this?


Bristol offers a lot of courses in sciences with placement years
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Original post by natninja
Bristol offers a lot of courses in sciences with placement years


how can students get professional work experience at the other unis?
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Original post by freedom
how can students get professional work experience at the other unis?


Summer placements exist for that reason, it's what I'm doing
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What are you studying? They do for some courses
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Original post by natninja
Summer placements exist for that reason, it's what I'm doing


May I ask a few q's on this? :smile:

Did the university organize / openly offer / help you find the placement ?
Does this mean you go to another town and basically work / shadow for a company? (Any problems you found such as financing the full placement? :tongue:)



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Original post by natninja
Summer placements exist for that reason, it's what I'm doing


oh okay, how do i find out more about these?
How do i apply?
can you send me a web link or something please.
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Original post by Jkizer
May I ask a few q's on this? :smile:

Did the university organize / openly offer / help you find the placement ?
Does this mean you go to another town and basically work / shadow for a company? (Any problems you found such as financing the full placement? :tongue:)



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The university advertises placements done by students in previous years on it's careers service website but there were none close to me...

I got lucky when I sent my CV to a pretty major company with a site near where I live.

Basically they paid me (£9/hr if you are interested though most placements either aren't paid or are NMW) to do work for them in their software department - I cannot discuss details as what I was working on is a trade secret at the moment - but it was quite cutting edge stuff.

However placements are usually reserved for people about to enter their final year - as I said I got lucky.

Original post by freedom
oh okay, how do i find out more about these?
How do i apply?
can you send me a web link or something please.


I genuinely have no idea... ask your uni careers office? I just got lucky getting one - which the company offered me again with a substantial pay rise...
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Original post by natninja
Bristol offers a lot of courses in sciences with placement years


Science with placement years are common across all ranges of unis.

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