“Gut-wrenching”: placements gone with the company
UK students have described their shock at the closure of GVI, a volunteer travel company whose placements many had booked and paid for. If you lose money to a travel company failure, the routes are the card provider under section 75 for payments over £100, travel insurance, and ATOL where flights were included — and all three have deadlines.
What students are doing instead of an internship
Liverpool students describe summers spent working, travelling or resting rather than on the internship the careers advice assumes. With bursary schemes oversubscribed and unpaid placements unaffordable for many, the honest position is that a summer job is also experience — and is easier to describe well than most people think. How to write a graduate CV covers doing that.
“Can’t cut, can’t grow”: what resilience would actually mean
A consultant sets out the bind universities are in — unable to cut further without damaging provision, unable to grow without students who are not coming — and asks what institutional resilience means in that position. It is the sober version of a year of transformation programmes.