UCC offers arts students chance to boost CVs

Arts and humanities do not always have a work placement but hundreds at University College Cork will now be able to do so — without having to leave campus.

The UCC Students Union has driven the initiative to give more balance to the CVs of humanities students. Because their degrees are mostly of three years, they do not get the same chance to partake in work experience programmes that form an official part of degrees such as engineering, medicine, or social sciences.

Some of the 160 internships already available have been filled, but up to 500 are expected to be on offer during the current year.