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4.5 Employment and Volunteer Work

Vacation and Part-Time Employment

Immigration rules state that international students may not take paid employment exceeding more than 20 hours a week during term-time. During vacations there is no restriction on the number of hours an undergraduate student may work. As postgraduate students do not have any set vacation periods they may not be employed for more than 20 hours in any one week during the period of registration, except for the Christmas and Easter vacations. If you would like further advice on this, please visit the International Student Support Office.

Students from the European Economic Area and Swiss national are able to seek employment, without any restrictions.

If you take up employment you will need to apply for a National Insurance number. In order to be eligible to receive a National Insurance number, you must have an offer of a job or be actively seeking work. It is not possible to receive a number before this. To apply you will need to make an appointment with the nearest Jobcentre Plus tel 0845 6000643. Full details are available from Founder's West 139, or the Careers Office. For further information see the Careers Centre website www.rhul.ac.uk/careers/

Volunteering Programme

The College runs a Volunteering Programme through which students can carry out voluntary work in the local community (working with children, the elderly, the disabled, with animals, as teaching assistants, in conservation and many other areas). All persons who work with children, the elderly or the disabled, need to be police-checked. If you are interested in volunteering with children, the elderly or the disabled while you are at Royal Holloway, please bring documentation which proves that you have been police-checked in your home country. Preferably obtain a certified English translation of that documentation. If you have any questions, please e-mail volunteering@rhul.ac.uk

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