work experience

• When is a job not a job? When it's 'work experience'
  Posted on February 27, 2012 by Louise Restell
  I could have been a lawyer. I don’t mean in the way that anyone could, in theory, become a lawyer if they wanted to. I mean because I went to Oxbridge and I came from a family who could afford to support me through some unpaid internships or work experience to help me get a foot in the door. In fact, I did attend one milk-round event to find out how to become a human rights lawyer. Who knows what would have happened if it hadn’t been Linklaters?
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  Posted in: Employment law
  Tagged: Alan Milburn, Fair Access to the Professions, internships, jobs, legal profession, Nick Clegg, social mobility, Tesco, training contract, work experience, workfare