Nicola Turner, Programme Director for West Midlands internships provider Graduate Advantage has been awarded the Aston Excellence Award for Outstanding Contribution to Community Engagement by Aston University.  The award recognises the success of Nicola and her team at Graduate Advantage, which has already placed 1500 graduates on internships in West Midlands companies in 2010 despite [...]

The ever increasing need for work experience has stimulated a rise in internships across a wide range of industries but do internships really give our graduates the essential experience needed to progress in their chosen career or are they simply exploitation? Internship provider Graduate Advantage seeks to change the perception of ‘internships’ here within the [...]