Celebrating the outstanding achievements of employers, universities and students involved in work placements & internships in the UK today.
Rewarding employers, placement students and interns for making a valuable and worthwhile contribution in the workplace.
Click below to watch the video of the 2010 Awards
In January 2010, the inaugural National Placement & Internship Awards took place at Oxford Brookes University. The Awards, sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers, were attended by over 100 representatives from employers and universities.
After months of planning, organisation and hard work, the first ever National Placement & Internship Awards took place at Oxford Brookes University on January 21st 2010. We were delighted to welcome over a hundred guests from a wide range of organisations and employers.
Lunch allowed some time for our guests to do some networking before heading into the auditorium for the main event. Our guest speaker was Chris Lomas of Naked Generations, and he took to the floor to give the audience some fantastic insights into Gen-Y and ‘Generation Mapping’.
Once Chris had concluded, we moved onto the presentations, and despite Oliver managing to knock a glass of water over the trophies, the main event went incredibly well.
For the complete list of the 2010 National Placement & Internship winners, please read on…
2010 Award Winners
This is the list of the main award categories & results.
- Best Placement & Internship Employer Sponsored by Changeboard.com More details
- Microsoft
- Best Small & Medium-sized Enterprise More details
- ProspectSoft
- Best New Provider of Work Experience Sponsored by ACCA More details
- Research In Motion
- Best Diversity within Work Experience Sponsored by Greenlight Careers More details
- Barclays Capital
- Best University Placement/Careers Service Sponsored by ProspectSoft More details
- Brunel University
- University With a Forward Thinking Attitude to Work Experience Sponsored by ASET More details
- Aston University
- Outstanding Contribution by a Student on Work Experience Sponsored by Accenture More details
- Nick Gilbert, PEG S.A.
- University Society With a Forward Thinking Attitude to Work Experience Sponsored by ProspectSoft More details
- UCL Economics & Finance Society
- Best Student Contribution to RateMyPlacement.co.uk Sponsored by 3M More details
- Emma Jones, University of Leeds
What makes these Awards and RateMyPlacement.co.uk unique is our database of student-written reviews on their work experiences. These reviews form the basis of our Top 20 Employers and were solely responsible for crowing Microsoft our Best Placement & Internship Employer 2010.
For the other Awards categories, an independent judging panel met on the 16th December 2009 at Oxford Brookes University to assess the shortlisted finalists in each category based on their individual submissions, entries, nominations and any relevant reviews. The judging panel was chaired by our very own Ali Lindsay and consisted of:
- Gareth Cadwallader – Small-business adviser / Thames Valley University Governor
- Chris Cooper – Dean of Oxford Brookes University Business School
- Richard Irwin – Senior Consultant, Recruitment Centre of Excellence, PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Abeiku Sarbah – President of Oxford Brookes University Students Union
Many thanks once again to the judges for giving up their time and helping us select our winners.
