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More than seven hundred students will serve for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games not as volunteers but as interns(实习生), working for months before the event and during the Games to help ensure its success．
A co-operation agreement was signed between the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad(GOCOG)and 16 Beijing-based universities and colleges．The schools will prepare the students to be interns．
Although the interns will work without pay, they are considered different to volunteers, who will also provide services for the Games．
Well-known schools such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, Beijing Normal University and Beijing Jiaotong University are included on the list．
The interns will work much longer than the Games’ volunteers, since they have to begin their work at BOCOG as early as one year before the Games start, while most of the volunteers work only during the 16 days of the Games．They have to finish the required lessons of their universities first and then learn more in their specialities to qualify to work for the BOCOG．They will take some special classes on Olympic knowledge and certain professional lessons outside the university to meet the needs of serving in the Olympics．
The 706 interns will be made up of 446 postgraduates, 118 undergraduates and 142 higher vocational students．They will come from such majors as foreign languages, media and communications, logistics and legal affairs．
According to university officials, the undergraduates will be students who have been admitted to college this year(2005)while the postgraduates will be those who enter next year．
