Learning Partnerships
Connecting with students during their studies brings great benefits to your business. From reducing your recruitment costs to exploring your challenges from a new perspective, we can help.
Partnerships to help your business
Working with students during their studies offers a wide range of benefits to your business. You can work with them on campus or on your own sites. Through learning partnerships, you can:
- build relationships that support your recruitment needs
- gain positive exposure and enhanced reputation
- provide employee development and volunteering opportunities
- showcase new products and services to your customers of the future
- influence the knowledge, skills and behaviours of the future workforce
- open the door to other knowledge exchange opportunities with our University
- make new connections with other businesses working with our students
You might be surprised by the variety of ways you can connect with students. Some of them might feel a bit daunting. Don't worry.
We'll work with you to explore what you want to achieve and outline the ways we think we can help you.
The consultancy project gave us greater insight into the challenges we face in some business areas and potential new avenues to explore in others. Ideas were well researched by the students who applied theories and methodology to provide solutions.
How you can work with students
- share your experience: support students' career choices by offering insight and reflections
- support events: several of our degree programmes run large, industry-specific events each year
- present case studies: bring real-world context to study modules by presenting projects
- host site visits: help students to understand different professional environments
- set student challenges: ask students to help you overcome your business challenges
We received a couple of really stand out presentations. One group in particular thought outside of the box in terms of innovation, presenting something practical but new that we weren't doing already.
