BBCSome students say that they are being abandoned by ministers with the aim of encouraging more working classes to work for the government, after the ministers announced reforms, they are being abandoned by a major civil service internship scheme.
Applications for summer program will now be Less socio-economic backgrounds banned for peopleThe ministers say that it will help in making civil service more representatives of the society and will help the government to take better decisions.
BBC News spoke to four students who want to work in civil service when they think about what they think.
‘I was already closed but now I will definitely apply’
Adam Alan, 20, Newark-on-Trent and Studies are from Sociology and Criminology of Warvik
The civil service was nothing until Adam knew until he went to the university and participated in some outreach programs.
He considered applying to the summer internship program – after the university was seen as a good step for a job in civil service after the university – but last year but how unique it seemed, it was closed.
“How was I going to create a chance against everyone, which in terms of personal network and knowledge, was a little more than me and a little more than me?”
Next year around 200 people are expected to be admitted to the revived internship program.
According to government data, last year, about 450 intern including Lower Socio-Economic Background, including 125, was selected from 4,200 applicants.
The intern is paid and the work programs are assigned to help in the plan programs, write briefing for ministers, to shade senior civil servants and do research for policy development.
Adam tells BBC News that none of his parents had gone to the university and were not in stable employment for their childhood. They treated to work in factories and warehouses.
He says that he experienced behavioral problems in school due to a difficult domestic life. He received free school food but during the sixth form he began to see education as an opportunity to prove his ability.
This inspired him to get a place in three A*S and Warwick at A-Level.
Adam, who is part of the social mobility organization, a 93% club for state school students in British universities says that the change in the internship program has inspired them to think about civil service again.
“It seems that I will be taken seriously now and now not only anyone [applying] Without a real shot. ,
‘Working class but working class not enough?’
21 -year -old Nail is from Ashworth, Kings Lynn and study social policy at the University of York
As the daughter of a nurse, the qualities of public service were something that grew up with Nail Ashworth.
“I originally chose my degree in social policy because I want to work for the civil service,” she tells us. “I have done this preparation, I think, not much reward.”
Nails are also aware of the fact that those who perform well during the Summer Internship, which are usually between the second and third year of the university course, can be tracked rapidly in a bachelor’s job in civil service.
Fast stream is a major service program for the recruitment of graduates that are trained for leadership and management roles.
It is highly competitive and according to government data, there were more than 44,000 applications last year, but only 986 was recommended for appointment. Of these, 211 were from Lower Socio-Economic Background.
Overall, by March 2024, around 540,000 people were working in the civil service.
Under the new rules, nails will still be allowed to apply for fast stream, but not a summer internship program. This is because the eligibility is decided by those jobs when the parents of an applicant were 14 years old. In the case of Nail, his mother was a nurse and his father was a city planner.
Now the criteria being used for internships have been determined by the Social Mobility Commission, which is an independent body that advises the government.
They classify jobs in five groups; The lowest of which is considered to be the lowest working class and includes businesses, electricians, shop assistants, workers, cleaners and waiters.
However, jobs such as clerical activists, roof and taxi drivers are considered above these working glass groups, as there are public sector jobs like nurses and teachers.
“Mostly, I felt impure,” Nail said about his response to look at the changes, planned to apply for next year’s program. “If I had known, I could change my plans and instead he could apply for this summer internship.”
State school-educated nails, whose parents were earlier in their families going to the university, say that she understands why the government is trying to encourage more people with the background of working class in civil service.
However, she considers herself one of them and is afraid of others that others will also be stopped from working in the public sector because they are not considered enough working classes.
“I am in the middle, not rich or poor, so where do I go? And then I stop working in civil service because now I don’t know who is watching for me.”
‘This will make civil service more representative’
20 -year -old Hannah Begum Leeds and Studies Politics and London School of Economics (LSE) are from international relations
Improvement in society is central what Hannah Begum would like to do for career.
She grew up in Yorkshire, where her father was a self-planned apprentice and her mother was a part-time community worker.
She says that LSE has an international background of many of her fellow students or has grown up south-east of England.
“Many of them do not really know what it means to stay in leads or to be in north and how different it can be.”
Hannah feels that when you are based in London, there are far more opportunities for high quality work experience – never take care of savings and travel costs – and that the improvement in civil service internships will open doors to people like him.
“Most of the people in this country are not in high socio-economic classes. Most of the people in this country are affected by penance, which are affected by the cost of living crisis, and we need people in the government who are reflecting those accurate people,” she says.
“We are not going to bring those people into government, if we do not make stones to step into their entry.”
Hannah understands why the improvement in internship is controversial for some, but she urges them to see things from her point of view.
“It should be kept in mind that everyone does not have the same privileges in terms of being able to get jobs in the government … [the reforms] Less intelligent people are not being mean, it means just a similar chance. ,
‘It seems that I do not want the country I love’
21 -year -old Peter Murphy is from London and studies history at Cambridge University
Working in a civil service means more for Peter Murphy than the choice of a sensible career – in his mind it is a chance to serve his country with patriotism.
His father, who was coming from Ireland, was the first person to go to the university in his family and Peter’s grandfather was a shop-fitter from Dublin.
Peter was visiting relatives in Irish capital when he heard about a change in the internship program. “I was very angry at that moment because it seems that the rug has been pulled [from under me],
State School -educated North London tells us: “It just feels that the country that I care – that I love and feel just as much as someone else feels the same part – I don’t want anymore.”
He says that his desire to work in civil service has only strengthened since starting his degree in Cambridge, where he feels that many students focus on an attractive career with very little ideas for extensive issues.
“I am worried that many bright people are getting very different from civil society and we are fracturing in a nation where people are satisfied to be prosperous and live in their small ivory towers,” they say.
,[The reforms] It is inappropriate and that it means to be British means … It just gives me a smack as socially disastrous, that people feel that they are not being taken on their merit. ,
