REPUBLIC Polytechnic (RP), the first poly to operate without internships, has reversed its policy after feedback from employers showed that some of its students were not properly prepared for work.

Its new principal, Mr Yeo Li Pheow, 48, who took over last July, said he had received similar feedback from students who had graduated.

Currently, RP students are asked to do a professional profiling project where students analyse an industry, a company or an issue to have a better understanding of their area of study, in place of an internship with a company. This is not the case in the other four polys, where an on-the-job training stint of about six months is the norm.

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