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Unpaid internships are legally and morally questionable

Not only are unpaid internships exploitative, manipulating a youthful workforce with no alternative to work for free. They also have the dubious honour of being legal in the most minimal sense of the word possible.  Internships are long past their glory days. As occupations for the particularly eager during a long vacation – a more […]

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What’s happening in the murky world of student internships?

Arguably one of the biggest, yet perhaps most subtle indicators of how British society has changed in the last few decades is the rise of the student internship. What was a rarity twenty years ago is now considered the norm, and for many a requisite step in following their chosen career path. Although there is […]