Changing internships in the UK...
Welcome to the manifesto site for the Interns’ Campaign for Change.
With the help of our Interns’ Advisory Board, we’ve been crowdsourcing ideas for the Manifesto, and after much discussion have come up with the main issues below.
We plan to put together the Interns’ Manifesto in the next month and would welcome all your votes, comments and discussions!
This is where you can contribute your own ideas for changing internships in the UK so that:
(1) they are open to everyone regardless of their background.
(2) they are of a good quality in every organisation – and not just about making tea and opening the post…
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To set up short term ('Halls' style) accommodation in London for Interns living outside of the city.
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Not to have them focussed purely on 'youth
It seems that training focusses on under 25s - but many people change career later . It's much harder as a 30+, who doesn'twant to do menial work at the bottom when you've worked for years. We priviledge our youth over the rest of society and makes it harder for older people to get their foot in the door.
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for flexible internships to be the norm
Flexible internships could appeal to organisations that can't afford to pay an intern, and interns who want experience but can't afford to work full-time for free.
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bursaries so that people from low income backgrounds can afford to do internships
Organisations that follow all the rules when offering unpaid internships (paying expenses, giving proper training and development opportunities, not forcing interns to do set hours or making them do work that they would otherwise be paying someone to do, etc.) are fine in the eyes of the law, but they still exclude people who don't have parental support or savings to live on whilst interning - particularly a problem if internships are full time and/or based in London. It would be great if the government recognised that many graduates could do with the same financial support they received at university…
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internships should promote equal opportunities
And be made as accessible in every way as other employment opportunities.
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for organisations to show commitment to their interns
This could be through involving interns in big projects, working with interns to identify a project they could do independently, or taking on board suggestions from interns to make their internship scheme better.
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partnerships between businesses for trading internship standards
london based companies should partner with regional companies to give incentives for trading interns. giving more than three or six month contracts so as to give more sustainable employment and transference of skills to employees and employers. it will also give better incentives for londoner or regional people to experience and understand the english economic landscape. it would also give more security to the interns to focus on building skills and being better quality employees, less stress means better work. this costs the businesses nothing more than a partnership agreement and saves recruitment time.
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