Academics
Case Studies
Here is a selection of case studies which demonstrate the benefits of taking international students in on IAESTE placements within your university. Proven benefits include the recruitment of high-calibre students from abroad for postgraduate studies and the development of new contacts in higher education institutions in other countries.
By offering placements to foreign IAESTE trainees you are directly assisting your own students in securing placements abroad through our reciprocal programme. To read more about their experiences of IAESTE just go the Case Studies available on our Student pages. Please click on the links below to read the individual case studies. Our site is being updated regularly and we will have more case studies to chose from shortly.
University of Strathclyde
Barbara Graham, Director Careers Service comments on the iaeste programme:
The University of Strathclyde’s Careers Service recommends the IAESTE exchange programme to our science and engineering students as a superb means of enhancing both their relevant technical work experience and their cross-cultural awareness.
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Imperial College London
Adrian Hawksworth, Student Placement Officer at Imperial College writes:
Imperial College London, as one of the founding members of IAESTE in 1948, continues its commitment to exchange students for technical experience to this day.
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Queen's University Belfast
An IAESTE trainee has helped a team from Queen's University Belfast win the British Computer Society's Annual Prize for Progress towards Machine Intelligence.
Marcel Ono, a computer science student from Brazil, joined the team led by Professor David Bell in July 2005 and contributed to the development of IFOMIND..
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