(Formerly Academic Articles)

What is it?

• Serving the first year of your training contract in academia with a research component.
• Completing a post-graduate programme during your training contract.
• You will still write the Qualifying exams at the normal times.
• The contract does specify that you must pass Board Exam Part I in 1st year for the year to qualify as 1 year of your training contract.

Who should do it?

• You must be above average academically.
• You should have an interest in intellectual enquiry and wish to study further.
• You should enjoy tutoring; teaching and interacting with people.

Why do it?

• An opportunity to develop key professional skills in communication and presentation over and above those developed in the TIPP and TOPP programmes.
• The ability to explain complex material to both large and small audiences of varying ability is a core skill required to succeed in management and the audit profession.
• Teaching a subject consolidates what you know about it.
• The year gives you the opportunity to develop intellectually within a discipline.
• It opens doors to academia as a career or as a stepping stone.
• Academic trainees are well received by the accounting profession.
• NOT another year of study, rather it opens up an opportunity for research and teaching.
• Feedback has been a great opportunity to develop personally and academically and to see the other side of the university.

And for fun...

• Be an Academic Trainee next year? - Click here (.PPT) (1 MB) (05/06/2008)