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Apprentice / Internship Search
Distribution of responses
How institutions vary
Middle 80% of the 59 institutions with enough responses. Academic domain mean: 7.9.
Institution is a major factor here: weaker and stronger institutions are 2.6 points apart on this topic. Where a student studies shapes their experience more than the topic itself does.
What we ask
“I feel prepared for my apprenticeship/internship search.”
What students say, and why
Little school help finding a placement; demotivating to keep applying alone.
"I got pretty poor help when I needed a placement. There was no one to help with what I was looking for."
"It’s just about applying, but it gets demotivating sometimes."
"The school has no contact with my company."
A placement with a strong professional environment focused on wellbeing and learning.
"A good apprenticeship with a high professional standard, focused on wellbeing and learning."
"Working with people, learning new methods, developing professionally and personally."
Representative, de-identified comments from the lowest- and highest-scoring responses, translated where needed.
Related insights
How we measure it
This is the topic-level average across its subtopics, on a 0-10 scale (higher is better), so an individual subtopic can score higher or lower than the topic shown here. Figures are scored responses from the last 12 months, mapped to the 2026 framework via the canonical question mapping; the cross-2020 figure on the Index uses the full response base. Movement compares the most recent six months with the prior six. Distribution bands: 0-4, >4-<8, 8-10. Cross-institution aggregate; no single institution identified; minimum group size applied.
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