20th September 2011, 10:41 AM
If only universities gave them, during the three years they've got them, something that looked like useful experience to put on their CVs.... one of the good things about the old 'vol' system was that before/during Uni I'd accrued enough experience (while getting paid, sort of...) that I went straight to a supervisor job out in the big bad world with a proper unit as soon as I'd graduated (actually technically just before, the uni wasn't happy!) - these days presumably a student would have to pay out a fortune to get on enough sites to have racked-up a year+ site experience during uni hols?