The Business School has a Placements Office to help you find a placement which has many established contacts with both 'blue chip' and smaller companies in England and you may be paid for the placement. On placement, your performance is assessed by a supervisor in the employing organisation and by a university tutor to ensure satisfactory training and progress. It should involve working on a significant problem or issue facing the organisation, if this is practicable, or it may be a desk based research project. The project may contribute to your final assessment and possibly your degree classification. Depending on the programme, most students take four courses per semester.
Most courses normally have one lecture and one tutorial, seminar or practical per week.
Students are expected to undertake 6-8 hours per course per week of private study which may include directed reading, working on assignments, group work, or simply reading around the subject. This gives a workload of up to 40 hours per week. You will find a variety of teaching methods is used. So, apart from lectures and tutorials, they may include project work, group work, student presentations, videos, role-play, computer applications and case studies. In addition, visiting speakers, field trips and study visits may form part of the teaching programme.