The “Working towards your Future” report recommended that Universities provide opportunities, both within and outside of the curriculum, for students to develop employability skills (CBI & NUS, 2011). They should also have relevant work experience. Two-thirds of graduate recruiters recently warned that they would not employ graduates who had no such experience (High Fliers, 2011). One way for students to develop both employability skills and gain relevant work experience outside of the taught curriculum is through completion of internships. Within the Faculty, we have been offering research laboratory placements to Level 4 students for a number of years. However, the majority of our students do not go onto careers in scientific research and therefore we have developed two programmes of internships for Level 4 and 5 students, educational research and curriculum development internships, which develop a different range of employability skills and more closely match the final career destinations of the majority of our graduates. Students undertaking educational research internships contribute to ongoing programmes of educational research currently being undertaken by Teaching and Scholarship focused staff within the Faculty e.g. evaluation of young people’s opinions of the use of research animals. Students undertaking curriculum development internships work either individually or in groups to develop and/or evaluate resources which will either enhance the student learning experience within the Faculty or externally. Examples of such internships include student evaluation of educational resources for IUPHAR and the development of a wiki of Open Educational Resources for teaching ethics in schools. These internships are extremely popular, with 91 applications for the 28 internships offered in 2011-12. Students are required to regularly reflect on their internships and the skills gained, and to blog these reflections. They are also required to write a short case study on completion of the internship. In these blogs and case studies, they recognise the skills gained e.g. team working, project and time management, communication skills, and the benefit of these to their future employability; they also have a tangible outcome or resource they can show to prospective employers. Educational research and curriculum development internships are therefore a valuable means outside of the taught curriculum for students to develop employability skills and to gain work experience. They also provide significant benefits for the Faculty in enhancing the student learning experience, facilitating pedagogical and educational research and in the external promotion of its activities.