Work Placements at ATU

Workplace Skills: 

Our programmes equip students with strong technical capabilities, enriched by both practical and academic learning. They also build essential transferable skills such as problem-solving, adaptability, teamwork, collaboration, and critical thinking. 

Influencing the Future of Learning: 

We foster partnerships across sectors connecting academic staff to industry professionals across the region. Engaging with students through work placements, offers employers a unique opportunity to give back while also benefiting from fresh perspectives and emerging talent.  

New Ideas, New Perspectives: 

Students contribute fresh ideas, new practices and perspectives to the workplace, bringing the latest research and learning being taught at ATU. They can also provide additional support for projects and research. 

Talent Pipeline & Future Recruitment: 

By offering students work placements, employers can build a valuable pool of potential future recruits. Students gain practical experience, while employers can identify talented, motivated individuals, who are already familiar with their organisation’s culture and operations 

• Students offer a source of skilled labour and an insight into new practices being taught at ATU. 
• Students provide a flexible and cost-effective solution to recruitment needs and help ease staff workload at busy times. 
• Students bring new ideas and new perspectives into the workplace. 
• Employers can recruit an additional resource to undertake projects. 
• Employers can identify potential new recruits and create a feeder pool for future graduate recruitment. 
• It provides people management development opportunities for staff. 
• It develops links with ATU for a range of purposes, such as Research and Development, Graduate Recruitment and Programme Development. 

Work Placement is a planned period of professional learning or experience, which may be accredited, where the learning outcomes are part of a Higher Education programme or module.  

It is a three-way partnership between an employer, a student and a Higher Education Institution (HEI), where a student is given the opportunity to work and learn in a professional environment relevant to their studies to achieve set goals.  

• ATU is committed to serving industry through the development of programmes which are co-produced by academic experts, industry partners and our students themselves, making them contemporary, interdisciplinary and relevant to the world of work.  

• ATU is a key producer of work-ready students and graduates in collaboration with employers, a key partner and driver of research and innovation. 

• ATU has one overarching goal – equipping students with the requisite knowledge, skills, personal attributes and confidence to contribute to your business requirements while also reaching their individual career goal.