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Placement Year/Year in Industry
All SMSAS degree programmes, except Mathematics with Secondary Education (QTS), offer students the opportunity of a one year placement between the second and final year of study.
Why undertake a Placement Year?
- Gain relevant work experience
- Strengthen your CV and make sure it stands out from the crowd
- Put skills and techniques from your studies into practice in an appropriate environment
- A chance to try a career and to earn a salary
- You may be offered a graduate job at the end of your placement
- The experience from a placement gives you an advantage when you apply for graduate positions
- An actuarial placement may count towards the work experience required for Actuarial Profession qualifications
- You may get a better class of degree after doing a placement
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The Placement Approval Process
For full details see: Code of Practice for Quality Assurance for Taught Programmes of Study - Annex Q: Work-Based and Placement Learning
If you are offered a placement you must seek approval from SMSAS before accepting the offer. It is essential that that the learning opportunities offered by the placement provider are judged to be suitable.
You should:
- Accept the placement provisionally, subject to approval from SMSAS
- Complete the Placement Approval form (Word document, 118 KB)
- Return the form together with a copy of your contract and job offer to the Placement Officer, SMSAS General Office.
Upon receiving written notification that your placement has been approved as part of your degree programme, you should confirm you wish to accept the job offer with your placement provider.
Join the Placement Mailing List to be kept up to date
Stage 2 students who wish to take a placement year should join the placement mailing list imsas-placement to receive important information and job
adverts. To subscribe visit https://lists.kent.ac.uk/sympa/info/imsas-placement and choose the Subscribe link.
Placement forms and documents
A wide variety of resources, forms, and other materials are accessible via the SMSAS Placements Moodle Module, but here are a small selection:
The Placement Handbook (PDF, 84 KB)
Contact Details form (Word document, 334 KB)
Induction Checklist (Word document, 124 KB)
Health and Safety Checklist (Word document, 37 KB)
Performance Review (Word document, 84 KB)
Report and Presentation notes (PDF, 30 KB)
Placement Supervisor's Assessment form (Word document, 41 KB)
Examiner's Report (Word document, 57 KB)
Report and Presentation Feedback form (PDF, 22 KB)
Placement Feedback form (Word document, 33 KB)
Placement Approval form (Word document, 118 KB)
I'm doing my placement in a secondary school. I will be in charge of some of my own maths lessons and running some clubs after school. For me that is the best placement I could ask for. I'll get paid but it isn't so much about the money, it's more about the experience I will have.