Firstly, happy New Year to you all!

I hope everyone had a good Christmas, New Year and managed to get plenty of placement and internship applications in!

We spotted a very interesting article in The Guardian last Sunday regarding new plans to accredit students who gain employability skills and work experience during their studies. Sounds like a good plan to me…

If there is one positive that comes out of the decision to increase tuition fees, it is that prospective students will have to think long and hard about which university to attend and what course to do, to ensure that their decision maximises their potential employability upon graduation. So any move that results in universities looking at the courses they offer and the need to embed employability and work experience within them is a good one in our eyes.

The Confederation of British Industry said it would be “broadly in favour of universities including more workplace and employability skills in undergraduate courses”. Everyone knows that in the current economic climate, graduating after three years without any work experience or employability skills means you’re likely to end up in the a queue at the job centre so for us, the need for an increasing number of universities to integrate placements, internships and corporate involvement within their degrees is vital.

Check out the article in full via this link.