Student Placement
What is a Student Placement?
A student placement is the perfect opportunity for a learner to spend time in a real workplace situation, operating alongside employees completing a range of duties or tasks as any employee would. The emphasis is on providing students with a meaningful, practical experience that enhances learning. The student should have the opportunity to apply their learning and skills to a range of real life situations and improve their knowledge and understanding of the vocational area. Furthermore, placements provide an additional forum for preparing students for life in the workplace.
Please note that student work placements are unpaid.
Benefits of Placements
To the Employer:
• Students can contribute fresh ideas and a variety of skills.
• Your own staff can benefit from training, mentoring and supervising students.
• Taking placement students helps to raise the profile of your industry within the local community and demonstrate that you are a caring employer who helps to support local further education .
To the Students:
• They gain valuable experience in their chosen career fields.
• They can apply their learning in the workplace.
• Students learn to develop softer skills such as team working and self confidence and employability skills.
To the College:
• Direct contact with business and industry means we are well placed to reflect real life demands of the working world in our courses.
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