Placements build industry experience
Kinga is in the first year of her International Fashion Business BA (Hons). Her ambition is to be a fashion buyer.
The opportunities to enhance her employability by gaining fashion industry experience was one of the reasons she enrolled on the course.
Here she tells us more.
of graduates are employed or in further study - UG UK DLHE survey, 2016/17
The course offered a sandwich year which meant I could have a year in the fashion industry to gain experience.
You also get to spend your final year studying in London, which, originally being from Poland, gives me some great international experience. It is really important in fashion to have this experience as it is a very fast paced industry.
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