Nepotism is defined by google as “the practice among those with power or influence of favouring relatives, friends, or associates, especially by giving them jobs.” Now, I could talk for days about the number of students at the university who have been recipients of nepotism. Your dad has a doctorate and is a professor at […]
The NHS Test and Trace System, run by Baroness Dido Harding of Winscombe, is an abhorrent failure. If we had a functioning system it might be that Covid-19, which has now caused over 100,000 deaths in the UK, could have caused less sorrow. So, given this miscarriage, who do we look to blame? Cronyism is […]
For many students in the United Kingdom, internships have become crucial additions to their CVs in order to achieve high-flying careers. For professions such as law, banking and finance and accountancy, thousands of students apply each year to prestigious companies. The process is equally stressful for those at university who have not yet figured out […]
We all know the age old idiom that tells us that who you know is more important than what you know, and few situations embody this more than the competition to obtain summer internships. As internships have become inherently key in becoming an employable graduate, the period just after the Christmas holiday has become the […]