American International University West Africa (AIUWA) Saturday held its fifth graduation of 115 students at Kairaba beach hotel on Saturday. This brings to a total of two hundred and seventy students who graduated from the university since its establishment in The Gambia.
The Saturday graduates were awarded following completion of their study programmes in different fields including medicine, midwifery, information technology and human resource management.
Chancellor and registrar of AIUWA, Dinesh Shukla said their mission is to build standard in higher education and build the capacity of people, saying since their gaining of licence to operate in The Gambia, over 200 students were graduated from the university from different countries in different fields.
Mr Shukla told the graduates that they should all be proud of themselves and their accomplishment but reminded them that this is just the beginning of deeper task on them to impact on lives. “Never rest on your laurels but work hard to bring changes in your communities and the nation.”
The university’s vice chancellor and dean of student affairs, Professor Makie Taal said since their last graduation last year, they have conducted many valuable activities which include making their medical program fully compliant. “Our full time faculties have modern laboratories to train students to become professionals. We are currently working on putting a computerized science laboratory in place.”
Professor Taal said Covid-19 pandemic have severely affected their activities but it has made them to prepare some sets of policies, including functional quality assurance system to guide their activities.
According to him, the university has a student population of 1, 200 expanding from The Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria and other parts of the world. “The development of research system has been steadily growing and as a general policy, all the university’s faculties have to include research in their courses.”
Chief Guest, Baba Barrow congratulated the graduates and reminded them they have received in them knowledge and that is wealth and intangible asset that will forever remain in them. He appealed to them to continue reading and learning, telling them that their degrees do not represent the end of their education but it is the beginning.
Omar Gaye, registrar of The Gambia Pharmaceutical Council and Alasana Darboe, deputy registrar of Gambia Nurses and Midwives Council both urged the graduates to continue to work hard to contribute the growth and development of their communities and nations.
“You must always apply personal honesty in the execution of your profession. The principles include to be fair when giving health support and to stop intentional harm on patients.
