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The Kaye Adams Programme: Is it time to ban unpaid work experience? Rage or Age? And how to reduce your winter bills

23/10/2017

Is it time to ban unpaid work experience? Rage or Age? And how to reduce your winter bills

BBC Radio Scotland - The Kaye Adams Programme, Is it time to ban unpaid work experience? Rage or Age? And how to reduce your winter bills

Is it time to ban unpaid work experience?

Is it time to ban unpaid work experience? Critics call it a 'modern scandal'. Do you agree? How did you get into your chosen career?

According to a new survey, there is strong public support to ban unpaid work experience that lasts more than four weeks. There are an estimated 70,000 unpaid internships a year and in some industries they have become the main route for graduates to get their first job.
Is it time to ban unpaid work experience?
Critics call it a 'modern scandal'. Do you agree? How did you get into your chosen career?

We're joined by Michelle Haley from Ayr whose little girl Mila now has an elastic band holding her heart together. Professor Mary Sheppard is the Professor of cardiovascular pathology at St George's Hospital and Medical school London 

Is it a rage, or is it your age? Our new weekly Monday morning feature will enlist the help of our listeners to find out whether the thing that really gets on your goat is because of your age or whether it's a real rage
Suzanne Teed is raging about drinking at concerts. Libby McArthur is an Actor & Director.

We know that Scotland's four biggest cities will have Low Emissions Zones, banning the most polluting vehicles, by 2020. 
Drivers of older, more polluting vehicles will today have to pay almost twice as much to drive in central London. The discussion on Wake up to money this morning was looking at Singapore 'pricing people out' of owning cars - is this the right way forward? Are we falling out of love with the car?

Would you like to reduce your energy bills this winter? Then take the chance to get some advice from the Dr Tanya Ewing, the Scottish Inventor of the original Smart meter.

Would you like to live to 100? There are more than 900 centenarians living in Scotland and that number is set to increase . We'll find out what it's like to make the century. Joyce Fisher is 101 years old, Georgina Bell is 96 years old from Milngavie and Dr Emmanuelle Tulle is a Sociologist of Ageing at Glasgow Caledonian University.

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