A TWO MONTHS INTERNSHIP REPORT CARRIED OUT AT AWING CENTRAL COOPERATIVE CREDIT UNION LIMITED (AWICCUL) BUEA FROM THE 06TH JULY TO THE 31ST OF AUGUST 2022

CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE INTERNSHIP University of Toronto defines internship to be a short term experience which can build skills in a specific field or career area. They also put it that, internship is an intentional learning agenda while job seeks remunerations.
Internship is an opportunity to integrate career related experience into an undergraduate education by participation in a planned and organized work.
Also internship helps provide students with experience and relevant skills to get into a particular field (career).
Internship is a short term program with primary focus of getting some job training in order to be able to match up lectures (theory) with what is practiced in the real world. Interns usually have supervisors who give them tasks to carry out and evaluate their overall work.
This internship is done by the student of UB on an annual basis. That is, it is done yearly. UB sends out students on internship unlike other schools for them to gain more practical skills.
1.2 CHARACTERISTICS OF INTERNSHIP  It provides substantive and challenging work experience.  According to the University of St Thomas, it entails supervisors being assigned to students which is mentoring and educational.  Opportunity to observe professionals in action: participate in staff meetings, client meetings, attend presentations and/or conference workshops and with professionals in the department (from university of St Thomas).  It is usually a short period of time in which students gain personal and professional development through challenging work assignments and tasks.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF INTERNSHIP There are always objectives in every activity that humans carry out, as such below are the objectives of the internship.