Be innovative, SFB graduands told

THE Minister of Education, Dr.Daphrose Gahakwa, has urged newly graduated students of the School of Finance and Banking (SFB) to be innovative in contributing to the development of the country. Dr.Gahakwa was addressing graduands during SFB’s second graduation ceremony held Saturday at the university’s campus in Gikondo, a Kigali suburb. “You are expected to be devoted to the development of the economy as innovative young people,” Dr.Gahakwa said. The minister urged students to not always wait for white collar jobs but rather create their own using the knowledge they had acquired from the university. She said graduates had the tendency of thinking they would immediately be absorbed by industries; “You should be prepared to work yourselves up the ranks,” advised Gahakwa. “The economy needs you to transform it so that we can reduce the levels of poverty that most Rwandans live in,” she added. A total of 378 students have graduated from the School of Finance and Banking (SFB) in the institution’s second graduation ceremony. The graduands comprised of 166 female and 213 male students. Jolly Igoma a student of Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing emerged as the overall best student with 79 percent and was awarded several prizes including a laptop computer. Igoma is an employee at Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in-charge of academic achieves and documentation. “It was all hard work that helped me to come to this achievement,”Igoma said excitedly.She urged fellow female students to have confidence in themselves to exploit the available chances. One of the highlights of the graduation was the awarding of lawmaker, Hon.Faith Mukakalisa, witha a Masters’ degree in project management. Mukakalisa called on the government to revise fees for Masters Programmes to make eduacatoion accessible to as many Rwandans as possible. “Though the government has subsidized the Masters’programme at SFB, there is need for the intervention of the Ministry of Education to see how these fees can be revised to help privately sponsored students,” she said. Ends