I told you we had trouble recruiting enough decent graduates...

[philmophlegm]

The latest plan is to pay their university tuition fees and their accommodation costs while at university.

Quite an offer. Hopefully it will be expanded to other offices after the first year.

My only concern (and it's a big one) is that it will narrow the skills possessed by JOLF employees because most of them will do the same degree course (in Accountancy).

http://rd.kpmg.co.uk/24661.htm

Comments

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

That sounds a really good scheme for both KPMG and the students, and good for the university too. There seem to be some similarities to apprenticeships and sandwich courses. I think I agree with you over your (big) concern; though there should be no reason why the scheme shouldn't be expanded in the future to involve other universities and other degree courses.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

The plan is certainly to involve 'leading universities' but I haven't heard anything about widening the study. Since the offer involves two years of paid accountancy training after university, it would have to be a relevant (i.e. accountancy) degree - the normal training contract for graduates is three years. But I agree that there should in theory be nothing to stop an expansion of the scheme to other courses.