The University of Roehampton has an enviable record in graduate employment. Employers want a complete package of qualification, experience and life skills, so we provide all sorts of career-boosting opportunities, such as internships, work or volunteer placements, networking events, and semesters at universities abroad.
In order to enhance your career prospects we have pathways within the programme which enable you to improve your presentation skills, your abilities to communicate verbally and in writing, your abilities to work within a group and as part of team, your organisational and time management skills and your abilities to present a logical and coherent argument. We therefore provide you with the generic skills needed for employment by enabling you to follow a particular personal development pathway. In addition, we also develop your knowledge and skills for employment in education by the choice of subjects you may study and the excellent teaching and learning experience we provide. So that when you graduate you may either gain employment as a teacher, after having completed a one-year PGCE, or another profession within education. Besides teaching, which many of our students go on to, a substantial number of students go on to gain employment as a learning mentor, social or community worker, youth workers, educational administrator and education welfare officer. Recent graduates have also gone on to work in the education departments in museums, galleries and theatres; early years settings; education publishing; education research departments and local education authorities. Besides gaining employment, our students have completed Masters courses in, for instance, special and inclusive education, counselling, philosophy or educational psychology.