Placement Students
Of the 203,275 students who started a full-time first degree course in 2002-03 and went on to gain a first degree within five years, 8 per cent did a placement. Students were more likely to be male with just 45 per cent of the placement year students being female compared to the average for all entrants in the cohort of 56 per cent.
They had a better profile of degree results. 71 per cent of placement students received a first or an upper second-class degree compared to 60 per cent of other students from four-year courses. Placement students were more likely to be employed six months after graduating and to have higher salaries than the average.
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The Placement and Employability Professionals’ Body (ASET)
- ASET is the professional body for placement and employability staff. It has been at the forefront of developments in sandwich courses and other forms of work placements in higher education, for more than 25 years. They represent over 1300 academic and administrative placement staff at more than 90 HEIs.
National Council for Work Experience
- Promoting, supporting and developing quality work experience for the benefit of students, organisations and the economy.
Year in Industry (YINI) are the UK's leading student placement experts
- Provide placements for students in their gap year before or during their degree course. They have placements for students interested in all areas of engineering, science, IT, e-commerce, business, marketing, finance and logistics.