University Placements

Laurio · 15 Mar 2007 at 19:43

Im at Northumbria Uni too and currently on placement at a Metrology Software company in the north east

daveydave · 15 Mar 2007 at 20:00

Im at portsmouth university, studying business studies and have a placement with Toyota (GB) working for Lexus on the corporate team at their HQ in Epsom

matthew_o50 · 15 Mar 2007 at 23:12

I'm at Stranmillis university college, a college of Queens University Belfast doing Business with education. I do several placements throughout my degree. I'm currently on a 4 week block teaching in a local high school. I really can't wait until it's over!

ArmyofHarmony · 15 Mar 2007 at 23:13

matthew_o50 said:
I'm at Stranmillis university college, a college of Queens University Belfast doing Business with education. I do several placements throughout my degree. I'm currently on a 4 week block teaching in a local high school. I really can't wait until it's over!

surely you like teaching, picking a degree with education in the title???

Stellios · 15 Mar 2007 at 23:15

lemonkettaz said:
Northumbria University ey...

watch out for dave harrison or whatever his name is

LMAO! I think we broke his spirits a bit last week, poor bugger looked like he was ready to cry at our lab session.

Gonna keep an eye on this thread, coming to the end of my first year now so will be needing to think about placements soon. Amazing how quickly time passes.

[TW]Fox · 15 Mar 2007 at 23:56

calnen said:
Congratulations
I'm not doing a placement - I just didnt want to put off graduating by another year, plus I've got a career goal and a placement wouldn't help it!

You'll regret that. I nearly didn't do one either but it's been VERY valuable, both to my degree and hopefully future prospects.

DarkShadow · 16 Mar 2007 at 00:00

Stellios said:
LMAO! I think we broke his spirits a bit last week, poor bugger looked like he was ready to cry at our lab session.

Gonna keep an eye on this thread, coming to the end of my first year now so will be needing to think about placements soon. Amazing how quickly time passes.

Tell me about it :eek:

You're doing Computer Science right?

Welshy, interesting. Care shed more info on this?

I'm also doing Soft Eng, first year.

Stellios · 16 Mar 2007 at 00:04

dark_shadow said:
You're doing Computer Science right?

Yep, quite enjoying it, but its not as good as i hoped it would be, I enjoyed Visual Basic at college, but Java is the bane of my life and is the only module in worried about not passing.

DarkShadow · 16 Mar 2007 at 00:05

Stellios said:
Yep, quite enjoying it, but its not as good as i hoped it would be, I enjoyed Visual Basic at college, but Java is the bane of my life.

I feel you, C++ is abysmal

Stellios · 16 Mar 2007 at 00:06

dark_shadow said:
I feel you, C++ is abysmal

Ive got the pleasure of that next year, along with Java, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML and SQL. I enjoy coding, but its a bit :eek:

at the amount you do.

Cant wait for the placement to be honest, I could do with a break now. Starting to slack off a fair bit, which is something i shouldnt be doing really.

lemonkettaz · 16 Mar 2007 at 01:18

stellios.. i feel your pain. Java is rubbish...

Dave is a really good lecturer... a very poor seminar person

... our seminars he more or less says get on with it.. i darent ask for any help

I love the course like, not too convinced about the java and internet tech modules... wow... designing web pages... easy

data modelling and system fundamentals is good and brain worthy... the criminology and forensic module i do is great... we have a hot lecturer for that one..

triggerthat · 16 Mar 2007 at 08:43

Don't knock Java, the concepts will be useful in the future. Programming can be tough at first, but with some practice, you should be fine.

matthew_o50 · 16 Mar 2007 at 16:34

ArmyofHarmony said:
surely you like teaching, picking a degree with education in the title???

I enjoy teaching but it's my first teaching practice and i've been landed with one of the worst schools possible. Even the experienced teacheres can't handle the kids.

There's so much more to do than delivering a lesson and i've been working non-stop over the last few weeks. To say i'm exhausted is an understatement but it's not put me of teaching. I just hope I get a much better placement next year and to be honest it couldn't get any worse.

Welshy · 16 Mar 2007 at 16:38

dark_shadow said:
Welshy, interesting. Care shed more info on this? I'm also doing Soft Eng, first year.

Care to shed more light on what exactly? About how experience will help you when you finish your degree? If that's what you mean, go and look at what employers are looking for, there's often a minimum of 2 years industry experience required

(for software development posts, cant say that counts for all jobs)

BeatMaster · 16 Mar 2007 at 16:44

Welshy said:
Care to shed more light on what exactly? About how experience will help you when you finish your degree? If that's what you mean, go and look at what employers are looking for, there's often a minimum of 2 years industry experience required (for software development posts, cant say that counts for all jobs)

Also, you'll struggle to get experience apart from through this unless you can find an employer willing to teach you things and not many are willing to do that. Although I'm sure they're are some out there but what exactly they'll have you doing and how hard they are to find is anybody's guess.

BeatMaster

Zogger · 16 Mar 2007 at 16:45

Welshy said:
Care to shed more light on what exactly? About how experience will help you when you finish your degree? If that's what you mean, go and look at what employers are looking for, there's often a minimum of 2 years industry experience required (for software development posts, cant say that counts for all jobs)

There are a lot of jobs out there specifically aimed at graduates that don't require experience.. including my software development one. If you get good marks then not doing one isn't too much of a downside but on the really competitive schemes you will be disadvantaged by not having experience, I reckon.

BeatMaster · 16 Mar 2007 at 16:51

Zogger said:
There are a lot of jobs out there specifically aimed at graduates that don't require experience.. including my software development one. If you get good marks then not doing one isn't too much of a downside but on the really competitive schemes you will be disadvantaged by not having experience, I reckon.

Yeah that happened with one of my friends who does Geography. Had decent marks and when it come down to the company choosing between him and someone else who also had decent grades, the other lad got it because he'd done a placement year and obviously had a years experience in industry. Its luck of the draw in a sense because if that other person hadn't applied then he'd of most likely got the job but as it happened he had and therefore didn't get it

BeatMaster

Rossmac · 16 Mar 2007 at 18:14

At Queen's University Belfast, doing level 2 Computer Science - heading to Dublin in June for placement with Bank of Ireland Asset Managment - cant wait!!

To the person looking to get into queens, what are you wanting to do?