by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 6, 2018 | fashion, Unpaid internships
GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN WAS BINNED AFTER TOPSHOP OWNER PHONED CHANCELLOR GEORGE OSBORNE, WITNESS CLAIMS * GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE! * New evidence has emerged that disgraced Topshop owner Philip Green may be one of the reasons why unpaid internships are still so prevalent...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 6, 2018 | Media and journalism, Politicians, social mobility, Unpaid internships, Wages
BEN BRADLEY MP WANTS ‘SLICK AND ENGAGING’ VIDEO – BUT REFUSES TO PAY FOR IT * GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE * * UPDATE (7.30PM, 9 OCTOBER 2018): BEN BRADLEY APPEARS TO HAVE DELETED HIS TWITTER ACCOUNT SOME TIME ON MONDAY AFTERNOON – ALTHOUGH IT IS...
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 | May 31, 2018 | Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships
TOP LABOUR MP UNDER FIRE OVER YEAR-LONG PLACEMENT WHICH SOUNDS LIKE A JOB THAT SHOULD BE PAID * UPDATE 1: The Labour leader’s office has just emailed all Labour MPs to remind them not to hire unpaid interns * * UPDATE 2: This website’s comments picked up...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 24, 2018 | Charities and volunteering, diversity, Graduate Jobs, Graduate schemes, social mobility, Unpaid internships
HOW TO GRAB YOUR PLACE ON THEIR SCHEME – BY THE PERSON WHO’LL READ YOUR APPLICATION * THE SUMMER SCHEME HAS CLOSED, BUT YOU CAN APPLY FOR THEIR AUTUMN SCHEME IN JULY * Keen to start a career in the charity world, but can’t afford to intern unpaid?...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 11, 2018 | London, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships
WHAT TO DO, WEAR AND SAY WHEN WORKING FOR BELOW MINIMUM WAGE AT LUXURY LIFESTYLE BIBLE’S LONDON HQ * EXCLUSIVE TO GRADUATE FOG * You may have read about the intern suing ultra-luxe magazine Monocle for unpaid wages – but you won’t have read the...
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 | Mar 14, 2018 | diversity, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, social mobility, Unpaid internships
WHO’S GREAT TO WORK FOR? LOOK FOR THE MEMBER BADGE On Monday 26th March, Graduate Fog starts a new chapter. We’ll still be slagging off bad employers – but we’ll also be praising good ones. Employers who want to help make the world of work...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 1, 2018 | Politicians, social mobility, Unpaid internships
OUR 18 MONTHS OF PESTERING FINALLY PAYS OFF The Department for Education has finally agreed to meet fair internships campaigners to hear our ideas to fix a problem affecting tens of thousands of graduates every year – and it only took us a year and a half of...
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