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Industry Placement & Work Experience with BLC

INDUSTRY PLACEMENTS with BLC 

What are they?

Industry placements, formerly known as work placements, are being introduced by the Department for Education to give students the chance to put into practice the knowledge and technical skills they are learning as part of their course.  From 2022, industry placements will form a mandatory requirement for students taking the new Level 3 technical programmes called ‘T Levels’. To gear up for this, we are implementing industry placements in some courses from the start of this academic year. We are looking to find employers in these industries to offer students a more substantial industry placement within the academic year. These placements are a minimum of 315 hours. Courses taking part this year include: Hospitality, Childcare, Health & Social Care, Hairdressing, Business, IT and Food and Beverage.

How can they help your business?

In addition to the satisfaction of knowing that you have helped a student to develop their real-world learning, the students can provide you with genuine value in a number of ways:

Immediate benefits:

  • Solve a small problem, work through a backlog or tackle low-priority but impactful jobs
  • Bring a fresh perspective into your business.
  • Provide opportunities for your employees to coach and mentor.
  • An excellent solution if your business has a short term or specific project that needs staffing.

Longer Term Benefits:

  • Address the current and future skills shortages in your industry
  • Inspire the next generation to work in your industry, whilst shaping the direction of technical education within your industry.
  • Industry placement can offer a low cost, effective method of recruitment from an untapped skills pool.
  • Raised profile within the community, through building a partnership with Buxton & Leek College.

Find out more:

We would love to work with you and support your business through industry placements.  Please get in touch with us and we can support you to become an Industry Placement Provider. Placements@blc.ac.uk or call 01298 28324

Employer CPD:

Buxton & Leek College provides FREE Employer CPD training throughout the year.  Such as safeguarding in the workplace, GDPR and apprenticeship support.

Find out more and book a place on our next training course here.

WORK EXPERIENCE with BLC

Apply Now to Secure Student Work Experience at your Business

We believe work experience equips students with vital workplace knowledge, behaviours and skills to allow them to gain confidence in their chosen industry and prepare for the workplace or progression to further education.

All 16-19 study programme students must take part in work experience or industry placements. In addition to the satisfaction of knowing that you have helped a student to develop their real-world learning, the students can provide your business with genuine value in a number of ways:

  • Solve a small problem, work through a backlog or tackle low-priority but impactful jobs
  • Bring a fresh perspective into your business.
  • Provide opportunities for your employees to coach and mentor.
  • An excellent solution if your business has a short term or specific project that needs staffing.

If you are interested in facilitating student work experience at your business, fill in the form, and we will be in touch.

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