Abstract
Internship programme is one of the methods which will expose students a chance to gain a deeper understanding of the knowledge that they have learned in the classrooms through actual works experience in the industry. Normally, before a student graduates, he/she has to undergo this industrial internship programme. The objective of this study is to examine business and accounting students’ opinions on industrial internship programme by using a survey instruments which consists of 18 statements. The statements were grouped into four dimensions: Career; Knowledge and Practical Experience; Soft Skills; and Monetary and Non Monetary Incentives. The survey was conducted by using four point-likert scale and distributed to 33 business and 51 accounting students at University Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia. The results indicate that both business and accounting students emphasise on Career as the most important dimension. Next of importance are Soft Skills, Knowledge and Practical Experience, and Monetary and Non Monetary Incentives. The results also indicate that both business and accounting students have similar opinions regarding industrial internship programme.
Highlights
Many consider internship as an opportunity to integrate career related experience into an education by participating in planned and supervised work
We can conclude that Career and Soft Skills are important to the students when they are asked about their opinions on the industrial internship programme
This study was carried out to investigate the perceptions of business and accounting students towards industrial internship programme
Summary
Many consider internship as an opportunity to integrate career related experience into an education (diplomas or undergraduates) by participating in planned and supervised work. University Sultan Zainal Abidin, one of the public universities in Malaysia, through Faculty of Business Management and Accountancy incorporates a structured and compulsory 6 months (1 semester) industrial internship programme into Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) and Bachelor of Accounting (BAC) curriculum. The objectives are as follows: To examine the perceptions of business (BBA) and accounting (BAC) students towards industrial internship programme; and To investigate whether there were any significant differences in opinions (by course and gender) between BBA and BAC students on industrial internship programme. The findings from this research give us an overview of the industrial internship programme from the students’ perspectives This would give some information to the faculty concerned on the emphasis placed by students with respect to dimensions such as soft skills and knowledge obtained from the programme
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