The "low down" on Internships

Internships can be paid and unpaid and happen during vacations at university or after graduation.  The most controversial are the unpaid, because they predispose that graduates have sufficient funds to finance themselves and thus exclude poorer students. Unpaid internships are most common in the media, environmental areas, PR, fashion, social charities and law. London has 60% of all unpaid internships, 63% of people doing them are women, 79% have a first or 2:1 and 48% are from London or the South East. The most common degree for unpaid interns is design, followed by English, History and Politics.

[ source: GTAssociates ]