Work Experience                                                                        

This page tells you about Work Experience.

There are some useful information leaflets at the bottom of the page which can be downloaded.

There is also a link to the World of Work website where you can find out more information.

We manage the work experience placements for over 12,000 students from 88 schools and colleges across Tyne and Wear every year.

What is Work Experience?

Work experience offers students the opportunity to prepare for the challenges they will face in the workplace.  It allows students who are still at school to become familiar with the skills and attitudes needed by modern business.  It also helps them recognise that the demands of working life are undergoing rapid and constant change.

The success of a placement relies upon effective partnership between the provider, the organiser, the school and the student.

Most students have a placement of one or two weeks, although there is an increasing demand for extended placements, which can be for 1 or 2 days a week for a term or more. In addition to this, schools are requesting more vocational work experience.

Benefits to employers include influencing the quality of future employees; development of recruitment channels; influencing career choices; raising the community profile and creation of management and staff development opportunities within an organisation.

Tyne and Wear Education Business Link Organisation (TWEBLO) is the lead funding body for work related learning across Tyne and Wear. As part of this role TWEBLO is responsible for ensuring that adequate health and safety provision is in place for every placement. A representative from TWEBLO will often contact employers prior to the work experience placement commencing, and subsequently every 1, 2 or 3 years depending upon the nature of risk.

Employers

We are always looking for local employers to offer work experience placements to students.  If you could offer a weeks work experience to a local youngster please ring Sue Rear on 0191 4432906.

      Information leaflets, forms and reports for you to download

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   Leaflets

 Work Experience Placement guidelines  [346k]
 Work Experience Information for Students  [371k]
 Work Experience Information for Parents & carers  [306k]
 Work Experience Guidelines for Employers  [2.86Mb]
Make a success of work experience  [239k]
Work Experience Student Diary  [884k]

   Forms

 Work Experience Personal Placement Form  [40k]
 Work Experience Extended Personal Placement Form  [40k]

   Reports

TWEBLO Safeguarding Statement of Principles  [32k]
Work Experience Annual Report 2007 - 2008  [549k]
Work Experience Annual Report 2006 - 2007  [461k]
Work Experience Annual Report 2005 - 2006  [1.88Mb]

Dedicated Work Experience website

We have a dedicated website that gives lots more information about work experience in Tyne and Wear.

Visit www.work-experience-tw.co.uk

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