The University of Management and Technology (UNIMTECH), has at the college’s campus, at Kissy Dock Yard in Freetown, conferred degree and diploma certificates to one thousand nine hundred students.
Vice Chancellor and Principal, University of Management and Technology (UNIMTECH), Professor Roseline Emeh Uyanga, congratulated the graduates while urging them to go into the world and contribute towards the growth of Sierra Leone.
She used the opportunity to call on the students to go beyond the educational walls and improve more on their pursuit to gain success in their educational fields. Roseline recalled some of the transformation the university has gone through and the number of lives the university has impacted.
“Our university’s main aim is to enrich lives by transforming Sierra Leoneans through the right educational materials and also creating an environment that is befitting for learning.” Professor Roseline Emeh Uyanga assured.
She thanked the University administration for what she described as resilience in their work, while also thanking the President Dr. Julius Maada Bio led government for what she described as facelift for the university having acquired such a status.
She said since the University was established in 1991, it has contributed immensely to the development of the nation, for according to her, UNIMTEC has produced men and women of substance in the country who hold strategic positions in many sectors.
“This is indicative of the University’s pursuit of excellence and as a means of making positive impact in the world,” she said.
She added that the University has branches in Bo, Kono, Kambia and its headquarters in Freetown and offers marketable courses. “We have taken the University to the doorstep of four districts. No need to travel to town to attend university,” she said.
She spoke of staff capacity in the University, noting that they have many lecturers with PhD as well as masters. She disclosed that some of their lecturers have also expressed interest to further their education. She called on the Ministry of Tertiary and Higher Education to provide grant-in-aid to these lecturers.
She called on graduands to be curious amidst challenges and be passionate too. She further urged them to stay open and accept community service, for according to her that is the essence of education. “You are all ambassadors of your families, you should therefore dream big and achieve extra-ordinary things in the right way,” she told graduands.
Fatmata Bangura, a graduand, said he remains forever grateful to God whom she said helped him in acquiring her dream of acquiring university degrees.
She said earlier, she had challenges in his first year but that; “it is only with hard work and commitment that I was able to achieve this very deserved victory.”
