Unpaid internships / Our trolling worked! Government finally agrees to meet

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...

Enough! After waiting two YEARS to discuss unpaid internships, we’ve just given the Department for Education one WEEK to invite us in

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...

We’re in! Department for Education FINALLY agrees to discuss internships with us

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...

Internships row / Government refuses to meet campaigners to discuss solutions to unpaid work problem

by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 6, 2016 | Politicians, Unpaid internships

PROPOSALS GO UNHEARD AS EDUCATION SECRETARY’S TEAM SNUBS INVITATION TO PRESENT IDEAS * GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE * The head of the government department tasked with fixing social mobility in the UK has refused to meet campaigners for fair internships to discuss the...