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    "id": 942316,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/942316/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Teso North, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Oku Kaunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13488,
        "legal_name": "Edward Oku Kaunya",
        "slug": "edward-oku-kaunya"
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the policy should also take care of internships and apprenticeships. Developed countries have made it a must for private companies and the government to provide apprenticeship opportunities to all students who go through formal education. The students are attached to companies and government departments to learn useful life skills to enable them work. Through this Motion, we should formulate a policy that makes it mandatory for apprenticeships and internships. As Members are aware, in this financial year, Parliament has provided funds to the Public Service Commission to hire 3,000 interns. The interns have actually been hired. These are graduates who have gone through post-secondary school education. For the first time, we will have these graduates learning skills, tenets and ethics of the Public Service. It is quite important, if we are to develop as a country, for the Public Service to be functional and efficient. We can only do that if we transform educated graduates into skilled people who understand work ethics. Internship programmes should be encouraged and we should have this policy as a law providing that all those who finish secondary schools and go to tertiary and other institutions of higher learning should go through internship and apprenticeship."
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