MI6 welcomes first ever school trip
MI6 has opened its doors for its first ever school trip, welcoming seven prize winning students.
The students, who were from some of the most deprived areas of Wales, met MI6 chief Alex Younger during a careers trip to London and were given a behind the scenes look at how the intelligence service operates.
The move was reportedly part of plans to broaden MI6’s recruitment pool, amid fears that prospective recruits from disadvantaged backgrounds may not consider a career in the service.
The pupils were part of the Welsh government’s Schools Challenge Cymru initiative, designed to give ‘hard working and aspirational students from non-privileged backgrounds a rare insight into working life in the City’.
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