Campus students dread internships, at least some of them do. CampusBee can confirm that students go to great lengths to get internship. Apparently, some campus lasses don’t even mind trading sex for internship opportunities. This seems to have become the order of the day.
A fourth year female student who undertook her internship at a local telecom company for two months, told CampusBee that she had to endure sexual harassment at the company by most men, and was even denied the monthly stipend because she refused to sleep with one of the bosses. “Someone called me from a top telecom company in the country after I had dropped my intern application. He wanted me to sleep with him before he could give me the position,” said the Telecom Engineering student. Another student, Linda Achen of Kyambogo University, said she turned down several sexual demands from men who made it clear to her that nothing comes easy. She had to wait for more than four months to get a placement, by which time the deadline stipulated by the school had lapsed.
“I got a placement at NSSF fair and square, without sleeping with anyone,” said Achen. Dr James Opolot, a lecturer at Kampala International University said internship posts were not easy to secure and that “some students may end up doing just about anything to get such spots.” In most universities, internships are assessed and mandatory, with marks awarded at the end of the semester.
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