VC Schram's Graduation Speech 2017

Vice Chancellor's Speech at the 49th Graduation of the Papua New Guinea University of Technology

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Dear Students​, Parents and Sponsors​, ​Honoured Guests, ladies and gentlemen,

It is my privilege today to address the graduates of the 49th graduation of the Papua New Guinea University of Technology UNITECH, their parents, family members and sponsors. Welcome all to UNITECH, where tomorrow's leaders are forged!

This year, we present to our Chancellor graduates from all different programs:

• ​50 Post Graduate graduates (of which 17th doctorate of our in-house doctorate program) 
• 5 in our EMBA, which is by now well-established, 
• ​and over 900 from our Bachelors programs. 

Today, therefore we add a total 967 UNITECH graduates of which 30% women, to the total number of about 15,000 alumni. We also acknowledge UNITECH Faculty members who obtained their doctorates at foreign universities since our last graduation: Dr. Ronny Dotaona from our Agriculture Department who obtained his PhD from Charles Sturt University in Australia.

Congratulations again the 23 new Police constables (2 of them women), all part of our UNIFORCE security services who graduated 15 April as a result of the MoU which I started to draft in 2012.