Saturday, 25 May 2013
If parents have to pay for school work placements, their children will suffer | Libby Page
<IMG alt="student work experience" src="http://pakedu.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/wpid-student-work-experience-010.jpg" width=460 height=276 itemprop="contentUrl representativeOfPage"> A student doing work experience at tailor and fashion designer Imtaz Khaliq's London studio. Parents are reportedly being asked to pay £50 or more for their children to do placements. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian<P>On Monday the Times reported that
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On Monday the Times reported that parents are being asked by schools to subsidise work experience placements by paying around £50 or more for the opportunity, with an additional fee for placements in London. Following the government’s decision to drop compulsory work experience for 14- to 16-year-olds last year, parents are now picking up the bill for risk assessments and admin associated with placements. Click here
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