{"id":497,"date":"2017-01-18T17:37:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T17:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/?p=497"},"modified":"2017-01-18T17:37:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T17:37:27","slug":"help-our-student-succeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/help-our-student-succeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Help our students succeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mentoring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Make a difference to a student\u2019s understanding of UK working practice. Join our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westminster.ac.uk\/about-us\/faculties\/westminster-business-school\/for-business\/students-as-a-resource\/postgraduate-and-mba-international-mentoring\">Postgraduate and MBA International Mentoring Programme<\/a>. Contributing just four hours of your time (across four months a year) can help a student on the road to their chosen career and is a rewarding way to give back to the University.\u00a0Mentoring can also be a\u00a0valuable achievement to note on your CV. <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.westminster.ac.uk\/Form.aspx?id=353575\">Apply now to become a mentor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Internships<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is your business or company in need of talented and committed\u00a0interns? We have well-educated and motivated postgraduate and MBA students, seeking eight week, part-time\u00a0 internships to gain practical experience as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westminster.ac.uk\/about-us\/faculties\/westminster-business-school\/for-business\/students-as-a-resource\/postgraduate-and-mba-internship-programme\">Postgraduate Internship Programme.<\/a>\u00a0 If you are interested in gaining this additional support, please contact Abigail Swain at <a href=\"mailto:wbs-bet@westminster.ac.uk\">wbs-bet@westminster.ac.uk<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not a business graduate?<\/strong> There are still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westminster.ac.uk\/about-us\/alumni\/get-involved\">plenty of opportunities on offer<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.westminster.ac.uk\/Form.aspx?id=261405\">Apply now for our mentoring scheme<\/a> or <a href=\"mailto:alumni@westminster.ac.uk\">email us<\/a> for more information about work placements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mentoring Make a difference to a student\u2019s understanding of UK working practice. Join our Postgraduate and MBA International Mentoring Programme. Contributing just four hours of your time (across four months a year) can help a student on the road to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}