Episode
Unpaid placements leaving professions decades behind
- Podcast
- Checkpoint
- Published
- Jun 11, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 270
- Processing state
not_requested- Canonical source
- https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2019038880/unpaid-placements-leaving-professions-decades-behind
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/checkpoint-650800/episodes/unpaid-placements-leaving-professions-decades-behind/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/checkpoint-650800/unpaid-placements-leaving-professions-decades-behind.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
"It's psychologically demoralising to be working for nothing". That from advocates who say having to do hundreds of hours of unpaid on the job training is leaving some professions decades behind the earnings of minimum wage workers. Nurses, teachers, medical students, midwives and social workers must do supervised placements to finish off their degree. But that can mean clocking up the kilometres and finding extra money for gas. Bella Craig reports.