Her breakthrough acceptance on to the V&A's development programme for assistant curators, she points out, was due, not just to her qualifications but also from numerous unpaid art internships, which she describes as "a bit of everything, an element of doing the photocopying but also an element of a curator showing me around and talking to me about amazing objects".
Realizing the lack of research experience of undergraduates enrolling in science graduate programs, several universities and national laboratories nationwide are now offering numerous prestigious paid internships for undergraduate research.
When faced with numerous rejections for employment or internships, the task becomes ever more daunting.
Jobs websites bring up advert after advert seeking "ambitious graduates" with a "work hard, play hard attitude" to fill numerous unpaid or minimum-wage internships and apprenticeships – wording that barely complies with age-discrimination law and makes plain the cultural advantage younger, cheaper applicants have over older ones.
Over the past few years, I've reviewed and critiqued numerous personal statements from students who were applying to graduate programs, internships, medical school, and other professional degree programs.
The MEAA's media director, Katelin McInerney, said the new guidelines were in response to numerous reported instances where students had been subjected to exploitative internship arrangements in the media industry.
+ The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs raised $1 million for an initiative that will help create more internship opportunities, and improve diversity within the city's numerous cultural institutions.
Lawyers for numerous companies say the Labor Department's criteria are obsolete, adding that department officials rarely enforce the rules against unpaid internships.
Described by numerous sources as "the MIT of Finland," Aalto University is home to startup co-working space Startup Sauna, startup internship program Startup Life, and the Aalto Design Factory maker space, among other entrepreneurial offerings.
