SFB marks 10th anniversary

The School of Finance and Banking (SFB) on Friday celebrated 10 years since its establishment with a commitment to produce quality finance and banking graduates.The first batch of 126 students was admitted in January 2003 to undertake a Masters of Business Management degree programme jointly administered by Maastricht School of ManagementIn an interview with The New Times, Elias Kiyaga, the Director of Marketing and Communication at SFB said: “We have come a long way. It is evident how it has transformed from a small campus offering postgraduate courses into a leading school offering specialised courses in the field of Finance and Banking in Rwanda”.He said the institution’s original mandate was to offer professional post-graduate studies in banking and finance, which they did through partnerships with Maastricht, the Belgian Bankers Academy, the Chartered Insurance Institute of London, Strathmore University School of Accountancy in Kenya, among others.“Our vision is to be a quality finance and banking educational institution with high academic, research and professional standards recognised at national, regional and international levels” stated Kiyaga.According to him, the SFB recently scrapped supplementary examinations, which he said, has enabled the institution to produce quality graduates.“SFB has lived with severe space constraints from 2004 up-to-date but two new large construction projects to again re-shape the Mburabuturo Hill landscape will provide SFB with room to relieve some of its overcrowding, providing higher-quality facilities to all members of its community, while preserving the historic central campus that has already seen so much drama and history,” Kiyaga stated.He said that plans are underway to complete the new learning complex and library, language laboratories, saying that the new buildings will enable the institution to have more room to accommodate all staff and students comfortably as well as increase the number of programmes and number of students per intake.

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SFB marks 10th anniversary