The Professional Training Placement Experience

Follow our current students through their Professional Training placements.

My Placement Experience at BMW so far!

Hi everyone, my name is Issy and in this blog I am going to be talking about my placement! I am a 3rd year Business Management student and this academic year I started my placement with The BMW Group at MINI Plant Oxford in Human Resource Management. My key responsibilities and experience It’s fair to […]


3 things that surprised me during my first months studying abroad

Since moving to Germany to start my year abroad just under two months ago, I have been consistently pleasantly surprised by every day I spend here. As a student of German and Spanish, spending time abroad to improve my language skills in an authentic setting is the crux of my degree and I am grateful […]


My psychology placement as a primary school mentor with City Year

Hi everyone! I’m Katey, a psychology student and I’ve written about my placement at City Year UK!  First of all, City Year is a social action charity that works to reduce educational inequality. They work in three different countries (USA, UK, and South Africa), and in the UK there are three bases (Greater Manchester, West Midlands, and London). […]


My engineering placement at Stanhope-Seta

Hello, Surrey students! My name is Lizzie and I have started a placement in August 2020 at Stanhope-Seta as a Mechanical Design Engineer. First and foremost, for those of you who don’t know me, I am the course representative for Aerospace Engineers currently on placement. I am studying on the 5 year MEng course, currently […]


My Nutrition Placement at Yakult UK

Hello! My name is Raffaella and I am originally from South Africa. I study a BSc in Nutrition and am currently on placement at Yakult working in Science Communication. What is Yakult? It is a Japanese company that sells a fermented milk drink that contains a unique strain of bacteria! I began my placement in […]


Adulting 101- A Placement in her majesty’s government!

To introduce myself – I’m Joao, an Economics student on placement at Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs). I started in August this year so only a couple of months ago. My first week was no different from the rest of the starters; The very first day, the very first morning, whilst waking up, I was left pondering on how the day would be like – feeling a bit anxious as I had no idea what I should be expecting.


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