by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 11, 2019 | Media and journalism, science and technology, social mobility, Unpaid internships
– “It’s hard for me to say no” to offers, says Lancet Global Health Editor-in-Chief, Zoe Mullan – The roles are unpaid and unadvertised – Comments were made during the Equality in Science Symposium, a public event at the Liverpool...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 23, 2018 | diversity, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog Employers Club, social mobility, Unpaid internships
TODAY THIS WEBSITE PROMISES NEW PUSH FOR INTERNS IN 2019 By Tanya de Grunwald, Founder of Graduate Fog * LOOK! WE’RE IN PERSONNEL TODAY * A brilliant new report about unpaid internships has just been published – yet I can’t help feeling we’ve...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 28, 2018 | Politicians, Unpaid internships
OUR DAILY TWEETS REMIND EDUCATION MINISTER DAMIAN HINDS THAT GRADUATES HAVE WAITED LONG ENOUGH FOR FOR ACTION It’s official: pester power works! Graduate Fog’s dogged determination to secure a meeting about unpaid internships with the Department for...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 2, 2018 | Politicians, Uncategorized, Unpaid internships
THIS WEBSITE SLAMS THEIR ‘GLACIAL’ RESPONSE TO BURNING ISSUE FOR THOUSANDS OF GRADUATES – AND ISSUES A ONE-WEEK CHALLENGE TO INVITE US IN UPDATE, 13 August 2018: After the Department for Education failed to respond to our challenge to reply by Friday...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 19, 2018 | Charities and volunteering, Unpaid internships
FIRST BIG UK CHARITY MAKES HISTORIC MOVE TO PAID ROLES ONLY Cancer Research UK today announced that from June 2018 all its internships will be paid — making it the first big UK charity to abolish unpaid internships, and heralding what is likely to be the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 8, 2018 | diversity, fashion, social mobility, Unpaid internships
DIVERSITY CHAMPION EDWARD ENNINFUL FACES INVESTIGATION INTO FOUR-WEEK PLACEMENTS AT BRITISH VOGUE * GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE * WHOOP! STORY PICKED UP BY THE GUARDIAN! When Edward Enninful became the new Editor of British Vogue, he promised to open up the fashion...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 24, 2017 | Politicians, Unpaid internships
UNPAID INTERNSHIPS ARE ALREADY ILLEGAL. WHY RISK CONFUSING THE ISSUE? By Tanya de Grunwald Fair internships campaigner and founder of Graduate Fog Could a new bill designed to improve interns’ chances of being paid for their work actually risk making things...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 21, 2017 | diversity, Employers and recruitment, Media and journalism, social mobility, Unpaid internships
WORLD-FAMOUS HOME OF BRITISH CINEMA FAILS TO STEP UP WHEN IT COUNTS * GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE * The British film and TV industry is very good at scratching its head and claiming to be mystified by the causes of its massive diversity problem, declaring its commitment to...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 21, 2017 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Job boards, job hunting, Media and journalism, PR and marketing, social mobility, Unpaid internships, Wages
MOVE SENDS STRONG SIGNAL TO STUBBORN INDUSTRY AND ARROGANT EMPLOYERS Looking for a paid media internship? Until now, they’ve been hard to find – but things may be about to change. One of the UK’s biggest websites for jobs in media, journalism and PR...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 2, 2016 | Employers and recruitment, Politicians, Unpaid internships
CAMPAIGNERS INTERN AWARE EXPLAIN WHAT’S GOING ON Confused by talk of a new ‘ban’ on unpaid internships, since most of them are already illegal? We were too – so we asked our friends at Intern Aware to clarify. They’ve explained that there...
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