Education partnerships
Become a
partner institution
Schools, sixth forms, colleges, universities and training providers — sign this agreement and your learners join the In4ra Management Programme on structured, fully remote placements. Free to the institution, and the whole agreement is signed online in about five minutes.
Free
No cost to the institution
6
Placement routes accepted
Remote
Placements across the UK
Same day
Countersigned, usually
Where this leads
Sign, and your learners are placed
This agreement is the whole mechanism — there is nothing else to arrange separately. Once it is countersigned, your learners join the In4ra Management Programme, part of the wider In4ra Work Experience Initiative.
Who we partner with
Any UK institution that places learners into industry. The paperwork differs; the offer does not.
Schools and sixth forms
Work experience weeks, careers programmes and Gatsby Benchmark 5 and 6 employer encounters.
Colleges and sixth form colleges
T Level industry placements, BTEC and vocational work placements, and supported internships.
Universities
Sandwich years, placement years, shorter credit-bearing placements and graduate pathways.
Training and apprenticeship providers
Work placement hours for study programmes, bootcamps and apprenticeship-linked provision.
Specialist and SEND provision
Supported internships and adjusted placements, planned around each learner with your team.
Employability and Jobcentre Plus
Sector-based work academy placements, work trials and referrals through a Work Coach.
Three ways to partner
Pick the one that matches where you are now. Most institutions start with placements and widen the relationship once it is running.
Most institutions start here
Placement partnership
A straightforward hosting arrangement. You place learners with us, we supervise them, and we report back in your format against your objectives.
- Remote placements across four business areas
- Named supervisor and weekly check-ins
- Mid-placement review and end-of-placement report
- Certificate and professional reference for every learner
Bring industry into the classroom
Curriculum and careers partnership
Everything in a placement partnership, plus employer engagement built into your teaching and careers programme through the academic year.
- Guest lectures and employer encounter sessions
- Live project briefs and real-world case studies
- Careers fairs, panels and mock interviews
- Input into curriculum and assessment design
For groups, trusts and whole faculties
Strategic institution partnership
A formal, multi-year relationship across a university faculty, a college group or a multi-academy trust, with an agreed annual plan and review.
- Group, trust or faculty-wide agreement
- Agreed annual calendar of activity
- Graduate and leaver recruitment pathway
- Co-branded materials and annual partnership review
Routes we already accept
If your learners come to us through one of these, we can usually be set up before the end of the term.
T Level industry placements
Arranged by the college
University placements and sandwich years
Arranged by the university
Work experience weeks
Arranged by the school or sixth form
Jobcentre Plus placements
Arranged by a Work Coach
Supported internships
Arranged with your SEND team
Work shadowing days
Arranged directly with us
A note on pay
Placements arranged through the routes above are unpaid, because they form part of a course or a government-supported scheme and are covered by that arrangement. Anyone doing productive work outside a recognised placement scheme is paid. We do not ask anyone to work unpaid in any other circumstance, and we are happy to set that out in writing in the agreement.
We work to your paperwork
Placement coordinators are usually short of time, not short of forms. Everything below is included in every partnership, in your format rather than ours.
From signature to first placement
Four steps, no procurement process, no fee and no minimum volume.
Read and sign
The full agreement is set out on this page. Complete the schedule, tick the declarations and sign it electronically — about five minutes, and nothing to print.
We countersign
We check the schedule and countersign — usually the same working day, and never more than two. You get a link to the fully signed copy, and the agreement takes effect on that date.
Your paperwork on top
Send us your own placement agreement, logbooks and reporting templates. We work to yours in preference to ours — clause 6 says so.
First learners placed
We agree objectives in writing, confirm supervision and start. You get a named contact, a review date and reporting in the format you already use.
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In4ra Education Partnership Agreement
This is the agreement you sign below. Read it in full — it is short, there is no fee anywhere in it, and either side can end it on thirty days notice. The schedule is built from the details you enter in the form.
1. Parties
This agreement is made between In4ra IT Business Support, a company registered in England and Wales ("In4ra", "we", "us"), and the educational institution named in the schedule below ("the Institution", "you").
Each party enters this agreement in its own right. Nothing in it creates a partnership in the legal sense, a joint venture, an agency, or an employment relationship between the parties.
2. Purpose and scope
The purpose of this agreement is to establish a framework under which In4ra may host learners from the Institution on structured work placements, and may deliver employer engagement activity such as guest lectures, live project briefs and careers sessions.
This is a framework agreement. It does not oblige the Institution to place any particular learner, and it does not oblige In4ra to accept any particular learner. Each individual placement is governed by its own placement agreement, learning objectives and start and end dates, agreed separately in writing.
3. Term and termination
This agreement takes effect on the date In4ra countersigns it and continues for twelve months, renewing automatically for further twelve-month periods unless either party gives notice.
Either party may terminate this agreement at any time by giving thirty days written notice to the other. No fee, penalty or charge arises on termination.
Termination does not affect any placement already underway. Placements in progress at the point of termination continue to their agreed end date unless both parties agree otherwise, or unless a learner's welfare requires an earlier end.
4. No charge and no exclusivity
In4ra makes no charge to the Institution under this agreement. There is no fee, no minimum volume of learners, and no commitment to spend.
This agreement is not exclusive. Both parties are free to enter equivalent arrangements with any other organisation or institution.
5. What In4ra provides
For every placement hosted under this agreement, In4ra will provide: a named supervisor; learning objectives agreed in writing before the placement starts; a weekly one-to-one check-in; a mid-placement review with the Institution's nominated contact; an end-of-placement report in the Institution's own format where one is supplied; and a certificate of completion and a professional reference for the learner.
In4ra will supply, on request and before a placement starts, its employer's liability insurance details and a written risk assessment covering remote working.
In4ra will nominate a named contact for the Institution and will respond to placement correspondence within two working days.
6. What the Institution provides
The Institution will nominate a contact responsible for placements under this agreement and will keep In4ra informed if that person changes.
The Institution confirms that any learner it puts forward is enrolled on a relevant course or programme, is eligible to undertake the placement, and holds the right to work or undertake a placement in the United Kingdom where that is required.
The Institution will tell In4ra, before a placement starts, of any reasonable adjustment, accessibility requirement, medical need or support need relevant to the placement, so that it can be planned for properly.
The Institution will supply its own placement agreement, learning objectives, logbooks and reporting templates where it has them. In4ra will work to those documents in preference to its own.
7. Placement status and pay
Placements hosted under this agreement are unpaid where, and only where, they form part of a course of study, a qualification requirement, or a government-supported employability scheme, and are covered by that arrangement.
Neither party intends any placement under this agreement to create a contract of employment or a worker relationship between In4ra and the learner. Placements are for the learner's education and development.
If In4ra wishes a person to carry out productive work outside a recognised placement scheme, that is a paid role and will be offered and paid as such. In4ra does not ask anyone to work unpaid in any other circumstance.
8. Safeguarding and learners under 18
Where any learner is under 18, no placement will begin until a separate safeguarding agreement and a written risk assessment have been agreed between In4ra and the Institution's designated safeguarding lead.
The Institution will provide its safeguarding policy and the contact details of its designated safeguarding lead on request.
In4ra will report any safeguarding concern to the Institution's designated safeguarding lead without delay, and will co-operate fully with any resulting enquiry.
Where a placement involves regulated activity as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006, the parties will agree in writing beforehand what disclosure checks are required and who obtains them.
9. Health, safety and insurance
In4ra will provide a safe environment for the placement, will carry out and share a risk assessment appropriate to remote working, and will maintain employer's liability insurance at not less than the statutory minimum.
The Institution is responsible for satisfying itself, before placing a learner, that In4ra's arrangements meet its own placement approval requirements.
Each party will notify the other promptly of any accident, incident or near miss involving a learner on placement.
10. Data protection
Each party acts as an independent controller in respect of the personal data it holds under this agreement, and each will comply with the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.
The parties will share only the personal data necessary to arrange, supervise, assess and report on a placement, and will not use it for any other purpose.
In4ra retains partnership records for six years from the end of the relationship, and placement records for six years from the end of the placement, after which they are deleted. Either party may request deletion of data held about it, subject to any legal obligation to retain it.
Each party will notify the other without undue delay of any personal data breach affecting data shared under this agreement.
11. Confidentiality
Each party will keep confidential any non-public information disclosed to it by the other under this agreement, and will not disclose it except to those who need it for the purposes of this agreement, or where disclosure is required by law.
This obligation continues for three years after this agreement ends.
12. Intellectual property
Work produced by a learner in the course of a placement belongs to In4ra.
In4ra will, at the learner's request and with In4ra's written consent, permit the learner to describe or show that work in a portfolio or an assessment submission, provided no confidential or client-identifying information is disclosed.
Neither party may use the other's name, logo or branding in public material without prior written consent, save that either party may state factually that the partnership exists.
13. Equality, diversity and adjustments
Both parties will comply with the Equality Act 2010 in the operation of this agreement.
In4ra will make reasonable adjustments for any learner on placement, and will discuss those adjustments with the Institution in advance where the Institution has told it what is needed.
No learner will be refused a placement on the basis of a protected characteristic.
14. Concerns and escalation
Any concern about a placement should be raised first with the named contact at the other party.
If it is not resolved within ten working days, either party may escalate it in writing to the other's senior contact. Both parties will act in good faith to resolve concerns without recourse to formal proceedings.
Either party may suspend a placement immediately where a learner's welfare or safety requires it, notifying the other party the same day.
15. Liability
Neither party excludes or limits its liability for death or personal injury caused by its negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
Subject to that, neither party is liable to the other for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of profit, revenue, goodwill or anticipated saving, arising under this agreement.
No charge is made under this agreement, and nothing in it is intended to create a financial obligation between the parties.
16. Status of this agreement
This agreement records the framework on which the parties intend to work together. It creates binding obligations in respect of confidentiality, data protection, safeguarding and intellectual property.
It does not oblige either party to offer, accept or continue any particular placement, and it does not guarantee any volume of placements in either direction.
17. Variation, assignment and governing law
This agreement may be varied only in writing, agreed by both parties. A variation may be agreed by email exchange between the named contacts.
Neither party may assign this agreement without the other's written consent, which will not be unreasonably withheld.
This agreement is governed by the law of England and Wales, and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
18. Electronic signature
The parties agree that this agreement may be signed electronically, and that a name typed into In4ra's online partnership form by a person with authority to sign has the same effect as a handwritten signature.
The agreement takes effect only once In4ra has countersigned it. Until then it is an offer by the Institution, which In4ra may accept or decline.
The signature record retained by In4ra includes the signatory's name, role, email address, the date and time of signature, and the version of this agreement signed.
Scroll to read the full terms — you are welcome to copy them for your own legal review. The signed copy stored by In4ra reproduces this text verbatim, together with your schedule, your declarations and the signature audit record.
© 2026 In4ra IT Business Support. This agreement and the wording of this page are our intellectual property and may not be reproduced, adapted or republished by any other organisation.
No fee, ever
Clause 4 — no charge, no minimum volume, no exclusivity.
30 days notice
Clause 3 — either side can end it, with no penalty.
Safeguarding first
Clause 8 — under-18 placements need a separate pack signed first.
Complete and sign
What you enter here becomes the schedule to the agreement above. Required fields are marked with an asterisk. There is no fee at any point, and the agreement takes effect only once In4ra countersigns it.
Before you sign
Does a partnership cost anything?
No. Hosting placements and delivering employer engagement is provided at no cost to the institution. There is no fee, no minimum volume and no exclusivity.
Are the placements paid?
Placements arranged through a course or a government-supported scheme are unpaid, because they form part of that arrangement and are covered by it. Anyone doing productive work outside a recognised placement scheme is paid — we do not ask for unpaid work in any other circumstance.
Are placements remote or on site?
Fully remote across the UK, which removes travel time and travel cost for the learner. We can discuss occasional in-person sessions where your programme requires them.
Can you work with under-18s?
Yes, with a separate safeguarding agreement and a written risk assessment agreed with your designated safeguarding lead before a learner starts. Tell us on the form and we will send the pack.
What are we actually committing to by signing?
To the framework, not to volume. Clause 16 is explicit: the agreement binds both sides on confidentiality, data protection, safeguarding and intellectual property, but it does not oblige you to place any learner or oblige us to accept one. Clause 3 lets either side end it on thirty days notice with no penalty.
Would rather talk it through first?
Call or email our partnerships team. We are happy to meet online or come to your campus, and we can send our placement agreement, insurance details and safeguarding pack in advance.