Durham University
After an early start in Leeds and a couple of wrong turns (we were relying on one of Ollie’s hand drawn maps!) we came to our first meeting, and it was not exactly as we expected. We thought we were presenting in front of 10 members of the careers service and spent the majority of yesterday evening putting together a presentation… fortunately for all involved we were only greeted by one member of staff!
Durham are heavily internship focused but like many of the research intensive uni’s have a growing focus on employability and work placements. Hopefully we can assist them achieve this for their students, as well as driving more internship reviews to the site.
The RateMyPlacement rating of Durham Uni is as follows:
- Weather = 7 / 10 – Perfect while we were sitting inside for our meeting, as soon as we went out, the sun went in. Cheers.
- Grounds = 10 / 10 – Our first experience of Durham and we were very impressed, great cathedral, some cobbled streets and a river, what more could you want?
- Beer = 8 / 10 – Couldn’t find the SU but the Varsity always does a job.
- Bird watching = 3 / 10 – Maybe it was because we are out of term time - there were a lot of grey hairs around!
- The “pot-noodle test” = 6 / 10 – Couldn’t find anywhere that sold them, but Greggs did a great meal deal for £2.99.
The Durham Uni Grand Total = 32 / 50
