01330nam a22001577a 4500 523311 523311 230807b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Belinda, R. 42458 Bridging the skill gap through internships: Stakeholders theory perspective Productivity 63(4), Jan-Mar, 2023: p.457-464 The skill gap among the youth of today is widening and is resulting in unemployability. It is time to revisit the education system and work strategies to develop employability skills among students. One such strategy can be incorporating internships in the curriculum at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels across disciplines. While offering an internship course, it is of utmost importance that the stakeholders involved, namely the primary stakeholders, which include the interning student, the Higher Educational Institution (HEI) and the organisation in which the intern is placed, should maintain continuous communication through which all three of them benefit. This paper attempts to examine the perception of the stakeholders about bridging the skill gap through internships, and their advantages and challenges.- Reproduced Skill gap, Internships, Stakeholders theory perspective 42459 Productivity INTERNSHIPS AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 398350 IIPA IIPA 2023-08-07 63(4), Jan-Mar, 2023: p.457-464 AR129277 2023-08-07 AR