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A2i Frequently Asked Questions
Employers, please visit our Employer Facing Page
Frequently asked questions (FAQs) below are relevant for both potential and current interns.
Final year undergraduate students who meet the Widening Participation (WP) criteria are eligible to apply for the fully-funded WP funding however, you will need to make sure that you can begin the internship before the date of your graduation. If you are unable to begin the internship full-time before your graduation then we ask that you undertake a few days/hours or complete an induction day before.
Download the WP criteria: A2i UG Student WP Criteria 26-27.docx
A2i supports disadvantaged and under-represented home undergraduate students by providing paid internships to those meeting very specific criteria. The scheme is funded through ring-fenced funds financed through home/UG student tuition fee income and is part of the University’s commitment to the higher education regulator, the Office for Students, to close gaps in graduate outcomes between home UG widening participation students and their peers. These measures are outlined in our Access and Participation Plan which has been approved by the Office for Students. Monitoring of this this programme and its expenditure is reported to the regulator. The regulatory requirements and associated funding relate to students paying regulated fees only i.e. home/UG and home/PGCE students.
You can apply for a maximum of one employer subsidy (funding for an employer) and one WP 'Help Getting to Work' bursary, per year.
Please also note:
- If you have secured an advertised internship as part of the and the internships team has offered the employer funding to help recruit an Exeter student, then this will not count towards your allocation of A2i funding.
We can provide funding for eligible internship employers to cover the costs of a proportion of an internship i.e. four weeks of a six week internship.
If you are applying for the WP funding and the internship is with a charity or Statutory organisation or it is being undertaken as part of a credit bearing placement (acting as part of a degree) then we can also provide funding to cover a proportion of your time.
Yes, we would recommend applying for funding as soon as you have secured an internship as funding is issued on a first-some-first basis and can go very quickly. However, your internship would need to be undertaken within the same academic year to be able to apply, for example, if your internship is due to start in summer 2027 you can apply for funding as soon as applications open.
If you apply in advance, we will reserve the funding for you and your employer right away but we will often not pay the funding until closer to the time, normally around 1-2 months before you are due to begin.
You can only apply for funding for an internship which is starting in the current academic year. You will be able to apply for funding for the following academic year from September time, once we have received our funding allocation.
If you would like to provide your employer with further information about the scheme, including the eligibility criteria, terms and conditions, please direct them to the 'Employer Facing A2i Webpages'.
A statutory organisation is an organisation that holds regulatory powers and is created by a of Law. These are often organisations that were created to provide public services, examples include county councils, NHS, Social Services, and the Police Service. Other examples include the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Transport for London, Arts Council England and the Olympic Delivery Authority. You can see an extensive list of statutory departments, agencies and public bodies
Unfortunately we are unable to support an internship with the following:
- The Commonwealth and/or the Commonwealth Secretariat
- Embassies
No, A2i can only support internships that:
- are with a UK registered organisation
- are based in the UK
- do not include international travel for work
If you are interested in working abroad please visit the University’s Global Employability webpages.
No, A2i can only support an internship if:
- It is with an organisation registered and based in the UK. Therefore excludes 'working from home' in the UK for a non UK registered and/or based organisation.
- It does not include international travel for work
If you are interested in working abroad please visit the University’s Global Employability webpages.
The 91天堂色情片's Access to Internships (A2i) scheme is unable to fund an internship with another university.
A2i is unable to support subsidiaries or divisions of large organisations with funding.
Yes, as long as:
- The start-up has suitable liability insurance
- They can employ you, provide a contract of employment, and pay you through their own payroll system.
No, A2i cannot provide funding for a student start-up company.
For help and support starting-up your own business please visit the Enterprise and pages.
If you qualify for the Widening Participation (WP) funding then we may be able to provide funding for an internship with an MP or party office providing they can:
- Pay you through the organisations own payroll system.
- Can accept funding from the 91天堂色情片 - some MP’s have been unable to accept funding from the University due to rules which do not allow them to accept money from third parties.
If you have any queries, please contact the team at A2i@exeter.ac.uk
Working from an employer’s home office is not advised. If an organisation does not have a public office then you would be able to work remotely from your own home and communicate regularly via email, telephone and/or video call.
If you have any queries, contact the team at A2i@exeter.ac.uk
No, we are unable to support self-employment. An example of self-employment is when you have to invoice for your wages, for further information about the differences between employment and self-employment please visit the .
If you wish to complete an A2i internship at the 91天堂色情片, you will need to have completed all your hours by Wednesday 14th July 2027.
If you wish to undertake an A2i internship with an SME, Charity or Statutory Organisation, you will need to complete the internship by the end of September. If you are a final year student you will also need to start the internship before your graduation date (usually mid-July).
There is a deadline to follow inline with the Universities financial year end and all funding must be claimed by this deadline.
The 91天堂色情片 uses the temporary payroll system for temporary workers including interns. It is important that you submit your hours (claims) weekly and by the timesheet submission deadlines.
External Employers
Once your application has been approved, the A2i team will contact the employer by email with details of the funding process and the steps required to claim the subsidy. We will issue an A2i Internship Agreement which must be signed by all parties. Once the agreement has been completed, the employer will be asked to submit an invoice for the full subsidy amount.
Please note that all required paperwork must be completed and invoices submitted no later than Friday 9 July 2027. Funding will be paid within 30 days of receipt of a valid invoice.
University Internships
You will be paid through the University’s temporary payroll system, Paid Time. Payments are processed in line with the University’s payroll deadlines, so please ensure your timesheets are submitted on time. The A2i team will then approve your hours so you will be paid.
Yes, it is illegal for any employee to begin work without this documentation in place.
Internships at the 91天堂色情片:
You are not permitted to start work until you have supplied evidence of your in the UK to the Temporary Resourcing Team. This applies to all interns regardless of nationality or duration of work. We will send you details about how you can do this once you have applied and have been successful in securing A2i funding.
Internships with External Organisations:
Meet your employer/line manager face-to-face before the internship begins:
- Take your original passport (or other acceptable Right to Work document) and a photocopy to leave with your employer.
- Your employer must check the original documents in person to confirm your identity and ensure the documents are genuine and have not been tampered with.
- Your employer should sign and date the copies and record on each page: "I certify that this is a true copy of the original document."
- Your employer must retain the signed and dated copies of the Right to Work documents for their records.
Yes. A National Insurance Number is a number unique to you to help your employer pay your National Insurance contributions; no one else can use this number and it is not related to health insurance. Your National Insurance Number is free to apply for, please do not pay an online service to generate a number for you. It is required when you get paid employment in the UK to record your national insurance contributions and is your personal account number.
For more information please visit the gov.uk webpages:
If your internship is with an external organisation i.e. not at the 91天堂色情片:
You and your internship employer both have responsibilities in law for your health and safety at work and this includes remote working. Your internship employer may have their own paperwork and/or an alternative process to assess risk, but if not, you could use a template outlined on the . You might also find it helpful to look at the following resources:
If your internship is at the 91天堂色情片:
You will need to complete the University's Health and Safety training as part of your mandatory training on the first day of your internship.
You will receive links to the mandatory training once your staff email has been activated, this training can also be found by logging into LearnUpon. You can log into this using your staff login details which will be sent you by the Temporary Resourcing Team.
Almost all workers are legally entitled to paid holiday however this is dependent on how many hours you have worked overall. For further details and to work out your entitlement please see
If you are working for the University, then you will not be entitled to take paid holiday as your hourly rate of pay includes rolled in holiday pay.
If a bank holiday falls during your internship you can adhere to the organisations usual practice for bank holidays or you can take it as part of your entitled leave (please see above).
If you are working at the 91天堂色情片 and your normal working hours fall on a bank holiday, you would not be entitled for paid holiday as your hourly rate of pay includes holiday pay.
You could instead take the day/hours unpaid, and we would recommend talking to your line manager to schedule in an alternative day to work.
If your A2i internship is with an SME, Charity or Statutory Organisation, then you will be paid via the organisations own payroll system. We ask employers to pay you the agreed wage, on an agreed regular payday i.e. monthly or weekly and once you have started working.
If your internship is at the 91天堂色情片 then you will need to submit your hours (claims) weekly, via the University's temporary payroll system (Paid Time), by the timesheet submission deadlines.
If you are already employed by the University and paid through main payroll you cannot be paid through the Paid Time system. Instead, you will need to complete a PD103 form which will need to be sent to payandbenefits@exeter.ac.uk, by your line manager.
If you have applied for the WP ‘Help Getting to Work’ bursary this will be paid directly to you via the University’s scholarship team just before your internship begins. You will need to ensure your bank details are correct on MyExeter.