ON-SITE PRACTICAL TRAINING (WORKPLACEMENT)
Istanbul Aydın Univesity has brought something unique by providing their students practical training on-sites in selected workplaces one day in a week. This provides students with an opportunity to transform their theoretical knowledge into practice, besides they meet the business sector and gain experience in the feld of their studies.
The workplacement is compulsory for short-cycle programmes and vocational schools in 2nd, 3rd and 4th semesters and for bachelor's degree programmes in 5th, 6th and 7th semesters. Weekly Course plans are prepared specially so that the students spend one day in a week in the work places during the semesters in which the work placement is integrated to the curriculums as a part of degree programmes.
What is Solution Partner?
All the institutions and companies cooperating with Istanbul Aydın University have become our “Solution Partners” in terms of social responsibility and contribution to education.
What is the purpose?
By placing the students into the appropriate departments of solution partners in certain days of the week, it is aimed to encourage them to observe, recognize the institution system, witness the business relations , integrate into the work flow and its processes and then contribute to efficiency after a while.
What are the advantages of “On-site Application” for the stundents?
Thanks to on-site applications, the students not only have the chance to practice while continuing their education, but also meet professional business life. After getting two years on-site application training, the students would graduate with the clear idea about their career goals.
What are the advantages of “On-site Application” for the institutions?
The institutions and companies would train the students, who recognize them well and learn the system, show great perfomance and adapt them easily, for future recruitment.
How are the student and the company determined?
Selection and work placement are done based on the student’s work experience, success, teaching staff’s opinions about the student and the company structure, its human resources management, expectations. In addition, the student’s personal interests, career goals and his/her address are the criterias taken into consideration. Students may also find their application places by themselves. The students must go to their application places enounced by the on-site application center.
In the process with on-site application and solution partner firstly, students number is detected then selection –placement is done in accordance with institutions expectations, and finally selected students’ information is given to the personel in charge.
How long does it take?
Academic semesters last 14 weeks excluding examination periods in İstanbul Aydın University. One week after the beginning of the semester, selection-placement and planning are in progress. On site application takes 14 weeks on certain days.
Attendance
The students must obey the working conditions and the regulations related the work safety of the institutions they are placed. If they do not obey or attend 3 times with/out permisson, their application will end and On-site Application Center will be informed about it.
Perfomance evaluation
After 14 weeks application is completed, the student’s performance, knowledge, skills, his/her utilisation rate and behaviours are evaluated by the person in charge and given a performance note.
On-site application file
Students should record the works, observations, evaluation they have done as weekly reports into the on-site application file after the process is completed.
A supervisor who is in charge with the student activities in the work place fills in the associated parts with performance evaluation, opinion about the student and suggestions about on-site application and summer internship then signs and stamps the application file. The student has to hand in the file to the head of depaetment in one week after the term of the workplacement expires.
Final Evaluation
Final evaluation of the on-site training (workplacement) is evaluated based on the üniveritiy's Worplacement Directive. Taking into account the report and performans evalaution submitted by the student and workplace at the end of the training period, student's final performance is evaluated as the "Pass (P)" or "Fail (F)" basis by the Workplacement Commitee established within the each department.