Step Programme

KEY DATES:

• Applications Closed: 30 May 2025
• Placements Start: 30 June 2025
• Placements End: 22 August 2025
• Step Final: 22 August 2025

*Please note: Student applicants must be available for the entirety of the eight week project period, and also to attend the Step Final.

UNDERGRADUATE BENEFITS

• A monthly allowance of the Living Wage (tax and NI deductible), over an 8 week period
• Great addition to the CV
• Personal development
• Possibility of a permanent job offer post-graduation
• The chance to win prizes based on your submitted written report and presentation at the final event

HOST ORGANISATION BENEFITS 

• Enthusiastic undergraduate to support business
• Excellent value for money - with a single invoice issued to the host organisation at the completion of the project
• Improved business performance
• Additional resource to complete a project which may not have otherwise been addressed
• Potential cost savings and additional revenue generation
• Potential future employees

PAST PROJECTS HAVE INCLUDED: 

• Manufacturing concept, design and development
• Setting up IT and/or accountancy systems
• Design and implementation of websites
• Marketing plans
• Research, strategy and policy
• Setting up of systems e.g. ISO 9000, ISO 14001, IIP, H&S etc.
• Design of company literature
• Analysis of production methods
• Environmental audits and follow-up work
• Design of new product concept
• Plus many more

TAKING PART 

All organisations can experience the benefits of a Step project, but in order for it to be successful it is necessary to have:

• a set project for an undergraduate to undertake;
• a suitable place for the student to work;
• appropriate supervisory and management arrangements.

Please note: The host organisation will be invoiced for the cost of the student based on Living Wage.