Africa-Press – Mozambique. Former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano was the guest of honour at the graduation of 248 students at Wutivi University.
Two hundred and forty-seven graduates and one Master’s Degree candidate celebrated the completion of training in courses including economics, financial and banking management, accounting, law, social psychology, architecture, human resources management and leadership and mining and geological engineering.
Chissano’s intervention posed challenges for both the graduates and educational institutions, in the context of exploiting the country’s resources.
“The country’s accelerated development poses challenges for higher education. More than training staff, it is necessary to guarantee the quality of scientific and academic training, capable of dialoguing with the global world in which we live, so as to boost the national economy, at a time when we reach new paradigms in our development,” he said.
Chissano then directly addressed climate change and the net zero goals.
“While we [Mozambique] have the possibility of using natural gas for some time, as a transition resource, we must encourage our youth, our scientists, engineers, researchers and innovators to strive – with firm step and faith that we are as capable as any other – to soon have secure control over all types of renewable energies as well.”
At the graduation ceremony, Chancellor Domingos Tivane emphasised that the title of graduate should not serve to humiliate others, but rather to earn acknowledgement based on technical skills. In the same vein, Dean Nelson Chacha observed that to be a graduate meant to be endowed with knowledge, including the ability to establish good relationships with others.
The graduates saw the occasion as one of great emotion, but with challenges ahead.
Of the 248 graduates, 184 are women. Unitiva has about 3,000 students, and this is its seventh graduation ceremony.
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José João
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