Faculty placements

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View useful information on preparing and sourcing your WIL Placement.

Before you send the placement agreement to the organisation, please contact the WIL Team to determine if the Faculty has an existing agreement with the organisation.

• Placement agreement and schedule 1 (PDF, 353.5KB)
• Industry placement form (PDF, 336.8KB)

To apply, visit InPlace where you will complete an application and attach the agreement and the industry placement form for your placement. See self-placement student instructions (PDF, 476.7KB) for assistance on how to complete this step.

If you have sourced your own placement, please submit your InPlace application 3–4 weeks before your proposed placement start date. This allows sufficient time for the WIL team to process your application and organise your placement.

Note: When submitting your attachments in InPlace, please make sure you click ‘upload’ and then 'save'.

To successfully complete any of the placement units in SEBE, you must successfully complete, as a hurdle requirement, an industry-based placement. The successful completion of the placement component of the placement unit is determined by two key factors:

1. that you attend the placement for the required duration
2. that you meet the performance standards required by the host organisation (the minimum standard is set as a score of 10+/20 in both the Mid Placement Industry Supervisor Evaluation and the End of Placement Industry Supervisor Evaluation).

If items 1 and 2 above have been satisfactorily met, you must then achieve a minimum academic standard of 40+/80 for the academic assessment tasks relating to the placement unit, to be eligible to pass the unit.

Assessment

The assessment documentation is sent to you by the WIL unit chair, due to the fact that placement units are credited to the course of study they must be assessed. The industry supervisor is required to carry out a performance evaluation during the placement. You must also meet continuous assessment requirements by managing your own workload. You must submit all pieces of assessment in the form of one portfolio 4 weeks after the completion of the placement.

At the completion of a placement, you will be assigned a mark that reflects your overall performance, both during your placement and for your portfolio. If your performance is found to be unsatisfactory during the placement, the placement may be terminated and you are likely to be awarded a fail grade.

This placement unit is designed to give you an opportunity to integrate your course learning in an authentic real-world setting.  At the commencement of the placement, learning contracts are developed to ensure that both you and industry have a means for meeting goals and intended outcomes from the placement.  You must demonstrate that you are working to the satisfaction of the host organisation. If your skill competency levels, professional code of conduct, and/or project and other work-task outputs are not being met to the satisfaction of the industry supervisor at both the mid and end of placement phases, then the University will intervene and decide on the best course of action for all parties.

If you do not meet the requirements of the industry host during the placement, then the placement may be terminated. If the placement is terminated, the remainder of the unit cannot be completed, and depending on the circumstances, a new placement opportunity will need to be undertaken in order for you to continue and pass the unit.

Should you wish for more information about the assessment for this unit please contact stpacademicmatters@deakin.edu.au.