"The job market has been really tough," says 29-year-old Wu Dan, who is currently a trainee in a sports injury massage clinic in Shanghai.

Ms Conway said it enabled trainees and Scottish crews to gain "vital experience" and help secure "sustainable careers" in the long-term.

He studied both law and political science, taking up a job as a trainee lawyer in Brno soon after graduating.

In videos sent to the BBC from other training colleges, trainees can be heard weeping.

He studied at St John's College, Oxford and on graduating almost immediately joined the civil service, starting out as a fast stream trainee in the Department for Education.