The Department of Linguistics and Communication Studies, University of Port Harcourt, has appealed for more chances from the Rivers State Newspaper Corporation for its students of industrial attachment programme.
Head of the department, Prof Aniefok Udoudo who said this during a courtesy visit to the General Manager of the corporation, Mr Vincent Ake said the department will be grateful for the gesture.
Udoudo said the visit was to cement the relationship between the department and the Rivers State Newspaper Corporation.
According to him, more students will be coming for internship, stressing that the department will ensure that their names are sent to the corporation early enough.
The university teacher also stressed the need for the corporation to participate actively in its conferences and workshops for practising journalists in the state.
He also said supervisors would be sent to monitor the activities of students on imternship in the corporation.
Responding, the General Manager of the corporation, Mr Vincent Ake, commended Udoudo for his foresight, adding that the corporation receives students from several institutions on industrial training.
Ake also said the corporation was not only interested in the workshops and conference but was working out ways of ensuring that staff of the Editorial Department of the corporation go for short- term courses in the department.