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While BIS is doing its best to help create internships, apparently with no minimum-pay conditions enforced on recruiters, through its Graduate Talent Pool (http://bit.ly/2vv996). Donal MacIntyre's Radio 5 Live programme had a piece on this a couple of weeks ago (reported on BBC News http://bit.ly/9myM92). There were claims of internship ads on that site blatantly breaching minimum-wage legislation. The TUC has apparently had some ads removed for this reason. The Welsh counterpart (Go Wales Work Placements http://bit.ly/c2DSIM) 'guarantees a minimum £240 per week, for 10 weeks, for anyone who finds an internship through the site' according to the BBC News story. Chris Jon Turney wrote: > This story in the mag one of my offspring works for (and >was paid by from > the start, hurrah) says DCMS is starting to do something >about it, but only > in the arts. > > http://twurl.nl/jrp21v > [...] ********************************************************************** 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail -- [include hyphens] 2. To resume email from the list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: set psci-com mail -- [include hyphens] 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com -- [include hyphens] 4. Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html 5. The psci-com gateway to internet resources on science communication and science and society can be found at http://psci-com.ac.uk 6. To contact the Psci-com list owner, please send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] **********************************************************************