The University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) today witnessed the graduation of 454 graduates from the School of Business and Public Policy (SBPP), during the third day of it’s 70th graduation ceremony; 104 postgraduates and 349 undergraduates.
Speaking at the ceremony, UPNG Chancellor, Robert Igara encouraged the graduates to take pride in their awards and certificates.
“Your award, whether a Diploma, Bachelor’s, or Master’s, signifies the beginning of a new phase of your professional, academic, and life journey.”
“Your award also symbolizes freedom and opportunity.”
“Freedom that comes from becoming a member of the academic community, a privileged community, and a community that goes beyond the boundaries of Papua New Guinea.”
“Your freedom of opportunity and choice that most of our people, our sons and our daughters, do not and will not have.”
He also encouraged the students to continue learning and improving after graduating from their studies.
“With rapid changes in our country and in the world, if you do not continue to learn and improve yourself and invest in yourself, you can increase the risk of your redundancy and irrelevance.”
“You can take your Diploma and Degree Certificate, frame it, and put it on your wall.”
“But it is the application of your qualifications that makes the difference in your knowledge, your competence, and brings out your real value.”
“Continue to invest in your continuing education – into your own progress and your growth. To be policy thinkers and architects and builders of our nation.”
The School of Medicine and Health Sciences will be graduating tomorrow with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences finishing the ceremony on Friday.
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