The Year in Industry Report provides students with a structured opportunity to combine work experience with academic study.
The Year in Industry allows students to develop and reflect on managerial and/or professional practice in real and often complex situations, and to integrate this with the study of the relevant subject(s) of their main degree programme.
Where relevant, students develop, reinforce and apply professional and/or technical expertise in an employment context.
The Industry Report requires students to reflect on and evidence their experiences in relation to both their university studies as well as to a wide range of employability skills.
To be able to undertake this module it is necessary for the student to secure a placement during Stage 2.
The placement should be appropriate to the student’s degree and experience. The length of the placement should normally be at least 44 weeks. It must be completed between the end of Summer Term of Stage 2 and the start of Autumn Term in Stage 3.
The particular combination of the student’s degree course and choice of modules together with the great variety of increasingly diverse Year in Industry situations make the “curriculum” of the Year in Industry essentially unique.
Autumn, Spring and Summer
Written Report - Weighting -100% - Pass Compulsory
Reassessment methods
Like-for-like
Module Learning Outcomes
On successfully completing the module, students will be able to:
1) Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of contemporary practice and issues, deepening and/or integrating subject knowledge with practice, within a placement or business start-up context.
2) Critically apply intellectual and subject-specific skills specified for the main course in practice.
3) Evaluate and analyse information to draw reasoned conclusions about business problems and relatively complex situations working in an organisational setting.
4) Communicate effectively about management and/or professional/technical matters, using media appropriate to the purpose and a range of audiences.
5) Work autonomously to initiate, execute and review work and the prioritising of workloads.
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