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Why Use Uni?

STUDENT
Uniplacement gives students opportunity to choose companies they would like to work for in specific towns, perhaps near their home area or an area that they would eventually like to work or live.
Uniplacement allows students access to only the companies that offer twelve month placements (work experience).
Uniplacement offers students the opportunity to choose their Sector, if it is not already apparent by their choice of course.
Uniplacement offers students information about the cream of British Industry, Commerce and Service.

UNIVERSITIES
Uniplacement offers an aid to Placement Offices in Universities Nationwide. By supplying details of businesses providing twelve month placements Uniplacement supplements work undertaken in Universities and offers students the facility to help themselves.

BUSINESS
Uniplacement allows businesses the opportunity to advertise themselves to a highly motivated, eager to learn and earn community. Offering twelve month placements to students provides many benefits for example:-
l The opportunity to recruit a graduate who is already familiar with the organisation, known to the employer, and can often reduce subsequent graduate training time.
l Employees who are capable of multi-tasking and working on projects.
l Cover for a temporary or unforeseen increases in workload.
l Specialist knowledge and a valuable external viewpoint on business problems. A twelve month placement can be seen as an extended interview for both parties, and is a very effective way of recruiting. Both parties know what is expected of them and graduate retention can be greatly increased. A high percentage of students undertaking placements return to their placement employers upon graduation, with as many as fifty percent applying to companies offering placements.

The Government commissioned 'Dearing Report' highlights the importance Government places on student work experience. The following extracts are taken from the report:-
Chapter 9 "We recommend that all institutions should, over the medium term, identify opportunities to increase the extent to which programmes help students to become familiar with work, and help them to reflect on such experience".
Chapter 11 "We recommend that the Government, with immediate effect, works with representative employer and professional organisations to encourage employers to offer more work experience opportunities for students" We recommend that companies should take a strategic view of their relationship with higher education and apply the same level of planning to it that they give to other aspects of their operations.

The Department of Education and Skills has published the Work Related Learning Report (February 2002) which can be downloaded from this site. It 'explores the importance of work related learning, how it benefits all parties and the need to recognise such learning formally'.

UNIPLACEMENT allows students to search for their ideal placement contact in three ways. It couldn't be easier - BY REGION - All registered business contacts have been grouped into one of the 4 regions defined on the map on the left and are listed alphabetically by city or town. Students then have a further option to define sectors within their desired region. BY SECTOR - 15 sectors have been defined by Uniplacement enabling students to start by choosing their area of interest. They then have the option to narrow their selection further by choosing a region. BY A-Z - Here all registered businesses are listed alphabetically. START NOW BY GOING TO THE SEARCH NAVIGATION BAR ON THE RIGHT OF YOUR SCREEN. WE WISH ALL STUDENTS THE VERY BEST OF LUCK FOR THE FUTURE.