LONDON — Pavlo Lapshyn, a gifted 25-year-old engineering student from Ukraine, had come to Britain after winning a prestigious placement at a software company.
That dysfunction has led to predation for decades—ask any librarian, or anyone who's suffered through the many indignities of trying to get a prestigious placement.
Each will embark on a master's in professional practice with all tuition fees paid, a salary of £10,000 for a year, free membership of the Chartered Insititute of Marketing and four placements with prestigious local companies.
But Keswick believes placements with smaller, less prestigious labels can be more valuable.
Among elite medical schools those regarded among the top ten in terms of selectivity, national reputation, and placement of graduates in prestigious clinical residency programs Duke alone is located in the South.
Make the position sound prestigious and challenging.
For instance, the prestigious law firm that sponsors gold-plated placements for children from deprived backgrounds while behind the scenes, the only black person who works in the photocopying department endures monkey noises every time he enters the room.
The most prestigious careers are party, military, diplomatic and academic placements, and the likelihood of getting one of these depends on having good songbun and being well connected.
Nick Clegg has backed complaints about a prestigious private school's auction of exclusive work experience placements for its students.
They have attended some of the continent's most prestigious universities and undertaken a diverse variety of work placements, from government departments in Spain to teaching English in the Indian Ocean island of La Réunion.
She had taken six advanced placement courses and had been selected for a prestigious state leadership program.
