Website against internship discrimination

Website against internship discrimination 

The Dutch ministry of Education has started a new online campaign against internship discrimination, reports the NOS (in Dutch). The initiative is aimed at higher vocational education (mbo), but at a later stage, Minister of Education Ingrid van Engelshoven also wants to involve higher education.

With the website, ‘Kies Mij’ (‘Choose Me’), the ministry wants to pay more attention to reporting internship discrimination. The site calls on students to report internship discrimination to the hotline and to talk about it with their internship supervisors or mentors. There are also online training sessions and webinars to teach companies how to select their interns as unbiased as possible.

The ministry has already taken several measures against internship discrimination and calls the problem ‘persistent’. Earlier this year, the Social Cultural Planning Bureau (SCP) calculated that about one in ten students looking for an internship suspects being discriminated against.