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Work experience for an english literature degree

I'm currently a Year 12 student hoping to study English literature at uni and considering doing work experience in book publishing/editing or journalism - are there any firms that offer placements for this as a 16/17 year old?

Reply 1

Clearing and Applications Advisor

Work experience isn’t required or beneficial for applications to academic degrees like English literature.

If you’re interested in working in publishing or editing/journalism then it might be worthwhile for your own interest and development but it won’t make any difference to your chances of an offer for a degree.

If you want help finding placements then you need to be specific about where you are geographically

Reply 2

meriem7

tysm that definitely stresses me out a lot less now!! :smile:

I'm located in London - I've had a search around for places but its so hard to find placements when all the publishing/editing firms I can think of only look for 18 year olds
any smaller ones that would accept at this age?