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Professional Liaison Unit

The Professional Liaison Unit deals with placing students with employers, alumni events, practitioner input to courses and course accreditation. Over a hundred students are placed with a range of employers each year, many of whom offer several placement opportunities. We arrange two types of undergraduate placement: a one-year placement and our innovative Professional Pathway placement. We also offer postgraduate internships.

One-year placements normally start between July and October. Students will have completed two years of their degree before starting a one-year placement. They will return to City to finish their degree after the placement.

The Professional Pathway scheme builds on our success in placing students with employers and on feedback from students about the value of a work placement in helping them develop as IT professionals.

Pathway students take the same course content and exams as full-time students, but at a slower rate of progression. They attend the University for one day a week for 45 weeks of the year. They generally attend lectures and some other course components with full time students.

The Pathway scheme enables the University to attract students who want relevant work experience alongside study including those who, for financial reasons, need substantial employment during their studies.