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Brilliant opportunity to work in Parliament

Ruth Tarrant

9th June 2016

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Applications are open until Friday June 17th for paid internships on the Speaker's Parliamentary Placement Scheme for 2016/2017. These internships are open to anyone - school leavers, teachers, professionals from other backgrounds, interested citizens - and pay the National Living Wage for working Monday to Thursday in Parliament, doing work as wide-ranging as answering constituents' queries and taking minutes in Select Committee meetings.

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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.

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