Advantages to employers

The department has been running degree schemes that include an integrated industrial year (IY) for well over two decades, and currently have around 70 students taking an IY annually. Many companies regularly employ IY students while others have occasional requirements, providing the opportunity to:

• take on lively, competent, energetic young people;
• re employ their industrial placement students after they graduate;
• provide a cost effective solution to short term staffing and project work;
• have the student carry out an employer inspired final year major project, which can be of benefit to both student and employer.

Learning Objectives

Employers must ensure that they can satisfy the responsibilities specified in the Guide for employers; and in particular that students are given the opportunity to satisfy the required learning objectives. This should pose no problem for any student employed at a suitable (pre-graduate) level; students on specific degree schemes usually try to find work that enhances their expertise in their specific specialisms and this should be discussed at the time of appointment. Students are expected to be flexible in this respect, should requirements change.

Further Information

Please refer to the main Industrial Year page for an overview of the IY scheme and details of the degree courses that include an IY placement.

Please refer to the Guide for employers for details of the IY scheme, the procedure for employing IY students, detailed employer responsibilities, salary expectations and how to advertise to our students.

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