Industry experts
Engage with UQ to host a student placement at your business, or develop your industry expertise with a microcredential from UQ Skills.
Host a student placement
Hosting a student placement is rewarding for both industry professionals and students.
You could task a placement student with tackling a specific research problem, undertaking a particular role within your business, or gaining an overview of several aspects within your workplace.
Enquire
Complete our online form to enquire about a UQ student placement.
Watch our video
Hear how hosting a student on placement can benefit your agribusiness (YouTube, 3m:30s).
Benefits of a student placement
By hosting a student on placement, you could:
- improve your recruitment strategy
- make use of an extra resource
- benefit from a fresh set of eyes
- solve specific problems.
We can help you align your agri-food industry challenge and placement opening with a student from a suitable discipline, such as:
- agriculture
- food science
- business
- environment
- marketing
- engineering
- IT.
Industry micro-credentials at UQ Skills
Upskill and improve your industry expertise in project management, leadership and innovation with a UQ Skills training program.
UQ Skills offers applied training and education programs in manufacturing technology, protected horticulture and agriculture.
By completing a UQ Skills qualification you can build business capability and create change to meet the modernised opportunities of the current and future industry market.