Student Sparks

Ethics and Research: Internship Mistreatment


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In today's world, a college degree isn't what gets you a job despite it being required, its the internships and the volunteering. Both are often unpaid and cause students to lose time and money in the sake of being successful in their careers despite having significantly low amounts of TIME and MONEY.

Join us and our EMS friend Sarah to talk about how students are often mistreated in the name of making it in the career world!


References


Internship Statistics:

https://flair.hr/en/blog/internship-statistics/#:~:text=39.2%25%20of%20internships%20in%20the,%2C%20while%2060.8%25%20are%20paid.&text=Former%20interns%20are%2015%25%20less,than%20those%20without%20internship%20experience.&text=Paid%20internships%20are%2032%25%20more,time%20job%20than%20unpaid%20ones.&text=The%20national%20average%20hourly%20wage%20for%20paid%20interns%20is%20%2420.76.

Article:

https://dc.swosu.edu/aij/vol10/iss2/5/

Article, paid vs unpaid:

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/762177/summary

Article paid vs unpaid: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053482219300178


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Student SparksBy A Naturopath and a Neuroscientist