To ask if you have a child at University and you pay towards their upkeep…..

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What do you do when they come home for the holidays? Do you carry on paying them the same amount, do you reduce it or stop completely?

In many cases these days internships are unpaid, or if abroad there are travel & accommodation costs to cover. My DC has been selected for a prestigious internship in Rome, Italy this summer for a month and it’s around £2k for travel and accommodation costs.

@L3ThirtySeven not in my dd experience.

both my dds secured paid internships in their summers. All the internships my dd applied for this summer, about 10 in total, were paid and very generous too. She received offers for three of them.

She was paid just under 4k for her internship last summer.

We pay his rent, phone, gym and any other ‘extras’. He gets the minimum maintenance loan to live on which is more than enough for the year, judging by the amount of clothes he buys from Urban Outfitters 😂

I remember there was a bit of an expose in the media a couple of years ago highlighting unpaid internships and how it was only for the rich as they were unpaid/poorly paid.

I have found companies have very rigorous procedures now (I suppose so they are not accused of nepotism) and pay is good.

In my experience students have to be extremely proactive and seek these internships out themselves; they won’t get them handed on a plate. They are not a jolly and are hard work.

Well my DC is in Uni now. And the only quasi-paid internship available in the U.K. was the Oxford Uniq+ research one which they did apply for and Oxford will let them know end April/May if selected. They’ve passed the first wicket. Even then (if they get it) it is a stipend they get, so not really a paid internship in terms of earning a wage.

My DC is in humanities, so there are no “companies” or “corporations” in the career field.

In my experience, my DC is extremely proactive and they do not expect anything handed to them on a plate. They couldn’t find anything paid at all. I’ve even tried to find paid internships for them and there literally aren’t any in their field. We both even looked abroad, we didn’t limit ourselves to the U.K. as that’s how we found the Italy one. Like you I thought that the whole unpaid internship expose had led to actual changes…but the reality is that it is not the case for every degree subject.

As it is there is the Oxford one (pending) plus the one they found in Italy (unpaid). Good news is that their Uni has a bursary that they’ve applied for to fund part of the costs of going to Italy.

I just pay DS's rent directly. When he is home he doesn't really need any money as I'm feeding him and he is pretty low maintenance anyway.