Access to internships

‎Access to Internships

Access to Internships is a fund to help the students and 2012 graduates of the University of Exeter to secure a paid internship placement. 

Typically we offer a £500 subsidy to potential employers to help towards the cost of your internship placement. We ask you to market yourself to employers, offering the subsidy as an additional incentive. We will provide you with an information pack how to do this, once you have registered.

Register

Are you eligible?

  • You must be a student or 2012 graduate of the University of Exeter
  • You must be seeking an undergraduate or graduate level internship
  • You must find your own placement and contact them yourself (it cannot be found through a University scheme)
  • You must have the right to work in the UK

Note for postgraduate students:

Postgraduate taught students may not be allowed to work unlimited hours during regular University vacation period. We would advise you confirm your availability to work, with your college Course Director.

Is your employer eligible?

  • The company needs to be either a Micro Business (1-5 employees) or a Small or Medium Enterprise (fewer than 250 employers and with a turnover of less than £10 million a year)
  • This must be a new internship (i.e. you cannot have worked for the company before)

The Internship placement needs to:

  • Use your undergraduate/ graduate level skills, knowledge and/or experience
  • Aid your career development
  • Provide training and support
  • Be within the UK
  • Offer you a minimum of 210 hours of work, unless specified otherwise
  • Be undertaken part-time during term-time (no more than 15 hours a week) or full-time during vacation periods
  • Pay at least minimum wage

Terms and conditions

All parties, the employer, University and intern, must also agree to the terms and conditions.

How subsidies are issued:

Subsidies are issued on a first-come, first-served basis. The number of subsidies left will be listed here and updated regularly. The current figures are: 

  • 16 x £500 student Access to Internships left
  • 9 x £500 graduate Access to Internships left

Once you have found an internship you will need to submit an application for the funding on behalf of your employer. Employment Services will make a decison and notify you within 7 days as to whether your employer will be issued with a subsidy, subject to receving full information. 

The subsidy will be paid to the employer when the intern has undertaken a minimum of 210 hours of the internship; and a completed Case Study Form‎‎, with contributions from the intern and employer, has been received by Employment Services.  ‎‌

Contact:

If you have any questions please come and find Jo McCreedie, Employer Liaison Officer (Internships and Mentoring), in the Careerzone, Streatham Campus where there is a drop-in every Tuesday 10am-1pm and Wednesday 1pm-4pm or email Elaine King, Access to Internship Administrator, at A2I@exeter.ac.uk