http://graduatefog.co.uk/advice/survive-work-experience/

Interesting article about unpaid internships

"You spent thousands getting your degree – and now you have to work for free?

While Graduate Fog accepts this is a complicated problem, we feel one thing is clear. It should NOT be the graduates who are left plugging this gap by working for nothing for months on end. After all, we pride ourselves on living in a civilised society where nobody is expected to work for free. That’s why we have the minimum wage (£5.80 an hour if you’re over 22). Expecting graduates to be the only group in society who are expected to work for nothing is disgusting."

The current system also hugely favours graduates from more comfortable backgrounds, whose parents can afford to help them out financially. Giving them such an enormous advantage over those with less moneyed parents is similarly disgusting. The whole point of opening up university to young people from all backgrounds was to level the playing field so that everybody could have a fair chance. What went wrong? "