Opening of IPP Completion Ceremony and Conference
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- Writer 커뮤니케이션팀
- 보도일자 2016-04-06
IPP-type work-based learning system is a Korean model of Co-op (cooperative education) that is being implemented by leading overseas universities. It is a long-term work and study practice system that simultaneously conducts full-time industry training and study during an academic semester.
Last semester, more than 150 students from business, engineering, and other departments experienced work in the field as interns at more than 100 companies that have signed partnership agreement with Sookmyung University. The work at industry fields has been getting good reviews because the internship method enables the students to directly participate and share results compared to common internship where the interns only carry out simple repetitive tasks. In fact, 14 out of 19 graduating students who participated in IPP successfully found employment right after completing their internship and even some of the continuing students found employment or were offered employment.
At the completion ceremony, the IPP participants were given completion certifications, which was followed by award of appreciation plaque for companies that contributed to the improvement of our university’s employment rate through hiring of interns, award of outstanding participants, few words from the awardees, etc. President Sunhye Hwang encouraged the IPP participants and expressed her gratitude to the participating companies through her welcoming speech.
The officials of IPP Center said, “We want to form IPP agreement with Sookmyung University through recommendation from other companies in 2016, and we are currently receiving offers from other companies.” They also added, “Through the great response on IPP from companies, we hope our students can have the opportunity to experience a variety of work and use it to ensure professionalism in actual work as well as find employment.”