KUNA holds ‘internship’ graduation function for Kuwait varsity students
Ceremony sixth year in a row
KUWAIT CITY, Oct 8, (KUNA): The Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) on Monday held a graduation ceremony for six batch of the Kuwait University (KU) students who completed KUNA’s internship program for 20192020.
Speaking at the ceremony, KUNA’s Board Chairman and Director General Sheikh Mubarak Al-Duaij Al-Ibrahim Al-Sabah stated that KUNA internship helps prepare KU students to meet labor market needs.
It qualifies students to start a successful career and assume their responsibility towards the dear homeland through contributing to the march of construction and renaissance, Sheikh Mubarak noted, lauding enthusiasm of the 21 participating students.
He thanked Kuwait University Director Dr. Hussein Al-Ansari and KUNA staff for their fruitful cooperation to render the program a real success.
This cooperation reflects mutual keenness on materializing the New Kuwait 2035 vision for further progress and prosperity for Kuwait, he stated.
Meanwhile, Al-Ansari hailed cooperation between KUNA and the Kuwait University for the sixth year in a row. He also expressed gratitude for KUNA’s staff efforts during the program.
For his part, KUNA’s Deputy Director-General for the Editorial Sector and Editor-in-Chief Saad Al-Ali boasted that participating in KUNA internship have helped graduates of past years get jobs easily.
He argued that KUNA aims, through this internship, to educate participants about the professional media rules.
KUNA also seeks to inculcate principles of credibility and accuracy in the minds of future journalists and media people, he said.
For her part, Bonaya Al-Ajmi, a participating student, delivered a speech on behalf of all graduates, thanked KUNA for training them on job skills and workplace environment before they enter the labor market.
This training course has greatly instilled in ethics of objective media all participants and trained them on how to report credible news to serve the society, she noted.
The KUNA’s sixth internship program launched on Aug 2 as part of KUNA endeavors to carry out part of Kuwait 2035 vision tasked with developing human resources.