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Dr Pik Kun Liew COL.7.15

This course is compulsory on the BSc in Actuarial Science (with a Placement Year). This course is not available as an outside option nor to General Course students.

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The BSc Actuarial Science with a Placement Year programme offers students the opportunity to complete a 9-month (minimum) to 12-month (maximum) full-time placement working in an organisation of their choice for them to acquire essential work-based skills with which to enrich their academic learning.

In addition to the completion of the work placement, students are required to complete the assessment of this course to be eligible for graduation from the BSc in Actuarial Science with a Placement Year.

This is a non-credit bearing course. There are no classes for this course. Students instead undertake a work placement during which they will be employed by an external organisation. The work placement should be relevant or related to the field of actuary and/or statistics. 

Students must hold a formal offer, in writing, of an appropriate work placement before the start of the Spring Term in Year 2 for approval to progress to Year 3 (i.e., placement year) of the BSc in Actuarial Science with a Placement Year. Students will be responsible for securing a placement role as well as its administration, with support and advice from the 番茄社区 Careers, a placement officer, and the Department. Students will organise and undertake their placement at a host organisation. The Placement Officer will support students with documentation checking and to ensure that the placement roles are suitable and acceptable by 番茄社区.

During the placement, students will continue to be registered as 番茄社区 students and, therefore will have access to all the normal services such as the library, student support, and the 番茄社区 Students’ Union. Students will also be supported with regular check-ins by the Placement Officer and the Department. Students will complete coursework at three points during the placement year: 1) mid-Autumn term, 2) during the Winter term, and 3) at the start of the Spring term. The three coursework build upon one another, with the final coursework being the culmination of the knowledge, skills, and professional development during the placement.

Assessment for this course will consists of students’ reflections on the feedback received from the workplace manager and colleagues, in terms of what t