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Internships are not the primary solution to unemployment

The thinking is that work experience is all that separates many young people from jobs.

The Government has set aside money for internships to give graduates work experience. Some universities increasingly require their students to take internship before graduation to get a taste of work and tone down the idealism of student life.

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