Thoughts on this? As reported by the BBC:
The main internship scheme designed to attract university students to the civil service will now only be available for students from “lower socio-economic backgrounds”, judged by what jobs their parents did when they were 14.
Those who are successful on the internship will then be prioritised for entry to the Fast Stream, the main graduate programme for entry to the civil service.
No posh ones?
Pretty bad policy tbh
Also doesn’t consider intergenerational privilege. It’s not unknown for wealthy grandparents to support the children of offspring who chose low income professions in the knowledge that they had no need to earn money.
Did it really have to be so extreme? Surely you could just reserve 30-40% of the internships for ‘working class’ people and have the rest be merit based.
Also what constitutes a ‘working class’ job? My dad was a self-taught software engineer running his own business. Is he in the same category as a Meta engineer earning $1m per year? It’s a joke tbh