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 | 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 | 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...
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...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 27, 2016 | student loan, Tuition fees, Universities, Unpaid internships
ANGER GROWS AS ORGANISATION CONTINUES TO IGNORE CORE CAMPAIGN ISSUES There was a time when the National Union of Students (NUS) was a force to be reckoned with, campaigning hard on core issues affecting UK students. But is it still? Or is it now just a glorified...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 16, 2016 | Applications, Business, Careers advice, CVs and interviews, diversity, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, job hunting, social mobility, Unpaid internships
YES, YOU CAN GET A GRADUATE JOB WITHOUT WORKING FOR FREE FIRST Despairing because you can’t afford to work for free? Convinced that the best graduate jobs always go to graduates who can afford to do months of unpaid internships? Stop! There IS a way you can...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 25, 2016 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Employment rights, Graduate Jobs, Media and journalism, social mobility, Unpaid internships, Wages
YOUNG WORKERS SHOULD SIMPLY ‘REJECT’ UNPAID INTERNSHIPS Graduates are too willing to work for free and should simply “reject” unpaid internships, a PR agency boss has said. She also implied that graduates who don’t “value their...
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