Half of all student nurses will be expected to take community placements before qualification in an effort to increase the numbers who opt for careers outside hospitals.
Decent placements require a Tefl qualification; Tefl.org.uk offers courses around the UK (from £249), online training (from £159), and a database of jobs, from Germany to Guatemala.
Evidence shows that individual factors are correlated with a high risk of attrition, including age, disability, entry qualifications, financial issues, and placement experience.
"I wouldn't be where I am now if I hadn't done a graduate trainee scheme," she says, explaining that as well as different departmental placements, she also benefited from a professional qualification and leadership training.
Practice placements for medical students as they approach qualification should provide opportunities for workplace learning.
The complaint said the company had a "boiler-room style sales culture" in which recruiters were instructed to use high-pressure sales techniques and inflated claims about career placement to increase student enrollment, regardless of applicants' qualifications.
Its recruiters used "high-pressure sales techniques, and inflated claims about career placement to increase student enrollment, regardless of applicants' qualifications," as The Times put it in an article about the lawsuit.
Adolescents who did not perform such a search at the end of their school career should display strongly delayed transitions and less successful placements as they start searching for a vocational qualification (which they often do much later or never).
Recruiters were instructed to use high-pressure sales techniques and inflated claims about career placement to increase student enrollment, regardless of applicants' qualifications.
However, please keep in mind that even if you meet these qualifications, there is no guarantee of placement.
