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News Release from: Technology Innovation Centre
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Postgrads provide project assistance
Businesses of every type and size throughout the UK can take advantage of help from one of Birmingham's Technology Innovation Centre's team of mature graduates on postgraduate technology courses.
Businesses of every type and size throughout the UK can take advantage of help from one of Birmingham's Technology Innovation Centre's (the tic) current team of mature graduates on postgraduate technology courses Between June and October, for as little as GBP 80 per week, businesses can benefit from the help of one of the tic's senior, full-time, advanced students who will undertake a technology-based project over a 16-week period
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 23 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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This opportunity offers companies what previous beneficiaries have described as 'excellent value-for-money' assistance.
Projects sometimes lead to longer term associations between companies and students as they are invariably found to be highly beneficial to the business.
An extra dimension to the student's help, which comes for around GBP 350 per month, is the academic supervision and access to the tic's range of leading-edge technologies it brings with it.
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Companies simply have to contact the tic's Post-Graduate Project Co-ordinator, Nicola Boyes.
She will then work with the company's management to select the student best suited to the project and set up liaison between the tic's academic supervisor and a 'mentor' nominated by the company.
Projects needing more than sixteen weeks of one student's time can either be tackled by more than one student or through some alternative special arrangements.
David Gray, the tic's Postgraduate Programme Manager, says of the industrial placement scheme: "Industrial projects are a regular feature of our course activities, but we are often surprised at how busy company managers overlook this opportunity.
This year we're seeking to raise the profile of projects as client companies who benefit tell us it is one of the best kept secrets in higher education".
In a recent comprehensive survey by the Guardian, covering all UK universities, the tic, part of the University of Central England, was amongst the nation's highest rated institutions in electronic/electrical engineering and mechanical engineering in terms of 'value added'.
Postgraduate industrial placement disciplines on offer from the tic include: mechanical engineering, automotive engineering, supply chain management, data communications and software, digital TV technology and production, and environmental pollution control.
Preliminary discussions with the tic may even reveal opportunities for the company to benefit from a government funded support scheme a number of which it manages or supervises.
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