60-minute online Insight session - Paid and unpaid placements: Moving the dialogue forward This Insight session will look at global and wide-ranging practices regarding payments to students on placements – frequently described as paid and unpaid placements (but really a continuum rather than binary alternatives). We will consider the full range of influences across different economies […]
ASET Associates are work based and placement learning practitioners and academics currently working at member institutions who volunteer their time to support ASET with the delivery of the charity’s Vision, Mission and Values. Our pool of ASET Associates receive regular training and meet three to four times per year to consider the requirements of the […]
60-minute online Insight session - Suicide Safer Placements DfE has published the largest-ever national review into student suicides in higher education, examining over 160 cases of suspected suicide or self-harm during the 2023/24 academic year. This session will present one institution’s approach to benchmarking it’s practice and taking a continuous improvement approach to suicide prevention […]
60-minute online Insight session - Preparing Engineering students for an uncertain future This session will present how changes and re-design of a module run by the School of Engineering in partnership with the Careers Service in one university helped prepare students for an uncertain future. Participants will learn lessons from the rollout of this module […]
Employers, providers, placement hosts – call them what you like, in this challenging economic environment we need them more than ever before. They are vital to our placement offerings and yet working with external partners can pose a number of challenges, as well as offer fantastic opportunities, for Higher Education providers, students/graduates and work based […]
Our annual Student Competition is open to students and recent graduates from ASET member institutions. There are three categories, each with a prize of £100 Undergraduate UK or Ireland experience Undergraduate international experience Postgraduate (UK/Ireland or international) experience Applications are now open and will close on Tuesday 25th November 2025 at 12 noon. Full details […]