Internship programmes with an impact

Guest: Meike Wetsch, Coega’s Unit Head for the Capital and Funding Office and Coega MICT SETA Graduate Internship Programme Project We're in conversation with Meike Wetsch, Coega’s Unit Head for the Capital and Funding Office and Coega MICT SETA Graduate Internship Programme Project. She shares key learnings from her experience designing the Coega MICT SETA Graduate Internship Programme. When Coega’s Digitalisation Work Stream looked at the post-qualification employment data of ICT graduates, they found that except for top graduates who find viable employment within three months of qualifying, the balance of Eastern Cape graduates remains unemployed for between eight to eleven months post qualification, with the bottom quarter of the qualifying class spending on average 18 months to two years seeking employment.