Guidance

Providing quality internships: guidance for employers and interns

Department for Business, Innovation & Skills supported guidance on running high-quality internship programmes.

From:
Department for Education and Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
Published
21 October 2013
Last updated
11 November 2013 — See all updates

Documents

Common best practice code for high-quality internships

Ref: BIS/13/1085

PDF, 398 KB, 18 pages

Making internships work: an intern’s guide

PDF, 923 KB, 2 pages

Details

The Gateways to the Professions Collaborative Forum produced this updated code of best practice and guidance for employers. David Willetts provided the foreword. The code describes the core elements of a high-quality internship and explains how to maximise the benefits both for employers and for interns.

Intern Aware and Bournemouth University produced the related guide for interns and potential interns on behalf of the Forum, supported by BIS. The guide explains briefly what to expect from a high-quality internship, and what interns’ pay rights are.

BIS is working with the Forum to support and encourage actions by the professions themselves to remove barriers to professional careers, especially for people from disadvantaged groups.

Updates to this page

Published 21 October 2013
Last updated 11 November 2013 + show all updates

  1. New 'Intern's Guide' published.

  2. First published.

  3. Updated internships code published.

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