Events

Previously titled ‘Alternatives to a Placement Year’. This training session explores experiential learning and it’s application by considering case studies from institutions who have embedded different work based and placement learning approaches within the curriculum. Broadening a student or employer’s options beyond the traditional framework of a placement year and scaffolding work based and placement […]

This workshop will explore how broader teaching, learning and assessment strategies throughout a programme can impact on employability and build towards positive student outcomes. The intended outcome of the session is to enable you to use your experience and expertise from placement activities to work with your colleagues in your own institutions to appropriately embed […]

60-minute online Insight session - Increasing Access and Success in Science Placements Many placement students in the Faculty of Science, University of York undertake research-based roles during a year in industry at national research and development organisations (e.g. STFC or UKAEA) or manufacturing employers (e.g. GSK or JLR). This Insight will present lessons learned from […]

This workshop focuses on identifying and responding to the ways in which neurodivergent students may access, or not, Work Based and Placement Learning (WBPL). We will seek to apply a variety of approaches to the WBPL journey to increase the likelihood of successful experiences for this varied cohort of students.

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 […]