Graduate placement scheme for translation graduates
24 April 2008
The Gateways into Languages graduate placement programme celebrated its launch on 22 April at the Institute of Engineering and Technology on London’s Savoy place. The event celebrated the success of the pilot phase of the DIUS-funded programme, which aims to improve the employability of students graduating from postgraduate translation courses through work placements in translation companies.
The pilot phase of the programme demonstrated that a successful partnership between employers and HE institutions can produce excellent results, in this case by improving the work readiness of students and raising their awareness of how the industry works through first hand experience.
Three of the nine students who took part in the pilot programme have been offered jobs in their host companies, with others going onto work as freelance translators, showing that the scheme can also work as a feeder programme into the translation industry. The project has so far proved so successful that it has received extra funding from DIUS to develop the partnership further across England.
One student said: ‘My placement has been a brilliant experience. I have been given the opportunity to undertake a wide variety of tasks and feel that this experience will be a real asset to my CV.’
Read the complete article on the CILT, the National Centre for Languages website.
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