Why They Won

• The University of Leeds EPS Employability and Placements Team managed to timetable compulsory employability lectures across eight academic schools from first year onwards. Their cohesive partnership with academics meant academic staff shared the message about the importance of work-based learning in sessions with personal tutors, which is a phenomenal achievement.
• For those students who couldn’t do a placement for personal reasons, their close-working relationship with academics meant they were able to create summer internship research projects, which led to 50 students being employed last year.
• The team supported international, disabled and widening participation students by developing additional resources and events tailored to them. They also had one international event with Deloitte, seeing an impressive 250 international students attend.