Work Placements
Experience real-life industry training with ALG work placements.
Industry Partners
At ALG, we understand the significance of student work placements in preparing you for the workplace. These placements are a crucial part of our hands-on training program, supporting our students to transition from study to the professional world. Students apply their classroom knowledge in supervised environments, ensuring they are job-ready upon course completion.
How Does It Work?
They are structured periods of unpaid work within supervised organisations. Depending on your circumstances, you may even complete placements at your current workplace, providing a level of convenience and flexibility that’s truly valuable.
Our dedicated Work Placement Coordinators will work with you to ensure that you have a successful placement experience. They will match you with suitable industry employers and provide ongoing support to monitor and ensure your wellbeing and safety of students during your work placements.
Throughout the industry placement, you will be supervised by qualified workplace supervisors selected by ALG assessors. Assessors evaluate evidence in the work placement logbook, monitor academic progress, and determine if you meet the assessment criteria for each competency unit.
Work Placement per Course
Support from Placement Coordinators
Our dedicated Professional Experience Placement Coordinators will work with you to ensure that you have a successful placement experience. They will match you with suitable industry employers and provide ongoing support to monitor and ensure your wellbeing and safety of students during your work placements.
Our Industry Connections are your Connections
Ikon has a substantial network of industry partners. These companies are well regarded within their respective sectors and provide invaluable insights and experiences from the industry, helping to shape our students’ qualifications with the field’s best practices.
Our industry partners play a crucial role in developing the future professionals. They provide mentorship and support to our students. With over 220 industry partners in the Ikon database, and collaborations with a considerable number of industry partners during each professional placement period, our students are presented with numerous opportunities to expand their knowledge and skills.
Professional Work Placement Roles Available
Classes are similar to our on-campus delivery but have been customised to suit an online format. For detailed information about the subjects you will be studying, visit our course pages for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Arts Therapy or Early Childhood Education.
Yes! All our classes take place in real time via Zoom with a live lecturer. There are no delayed or pre-recorded sessions.
You will need an iPad or computer to attend your classes and complete your weekly study tasks and assessments.
We use Canvas as our learning management system. It gives you access to your study materials including course outlines, slides, readings and other relevant study information. It also guides you on how to submit your assessments.
For Arts Therapy students, you will need to have your own art materials and a suitable space for creating art and performing movement exercises. Click here to view our Arts Therapy Materials List for Online Students.
Our online classes follow the same teaching structure as our on-campus delivery. Each academic year is divided into three study periods called trimesters, each comprising 11 weeks of teaching plus one exam week. A full-time study load includes 9 subjects per year (3 subjects per trimester). You should allocate 3 hours per subject for lectures and tutorials. Please remember that if you are an international student, you are required to undertake a full-time study load.
Yes, apart from your live lectures, you should spend additional time each week on self-study to complete prescribed readings, practice skills, research, study, and allocate additional time for assessments. For Early Childhood Education students, we suggest 7 hours. For Counselling and Psychotherapy and Arts Therapy, we suggest 10 hours.
Embrace Preparation
Good preparation will help you to adapt quickly to your new surroundings and achieve better learning outcomes.
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