Having come back from OSIP, I've had to do in-house SIP for my Major Project. We've had to practise the clock in/out system similar to workplaces. Thus the same rules of latecoming and not clocking in/out applies in TP too. As for leave, only in special circumstances would it be approved.

However, the fact that the MP-SIP semester was meant to give students an experience of the real working world seems to have been lost for the in-house part. Most students who have been assigned to in-house are just kept cooped in within the campus. Reasons why these students have been kept there varies.

Now the question beckons, how beneficial is it for the student to be kept in a place with only his work to be done over a period of at least 4 months?

Restricted to the confines of the campus/lab, students are to focus on their project. However, the circumstances for approval of LOA really needs to be reviewed. Most students would of course just leave the campus or just go ahead with their activity elsewhere. In some cases, its purely of invalid reason. But perhaps their leave can be approved on the basis that the activity is his/her CCA and that the student has made sufficient progress or completed work on his project. Of course it is subject to the discretion and requirements of the supervisors.