Monash South Africa students graduate with Honours
5 March 2007
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Monash South Africa students graduate with IT Honours:
From the left: Dr Jacques Steyn, Head of School of IT at Monash South Africa, and the four students who received Honours Degrees in Bachelor of Business Systems: Rebecca Burks, Phillip Timveos, Laura Cremona, Wilfred Moyo as well as Prof Ron Weber, Dean of the Faculty of IT at Monash University.
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At the fourth Monash South Africa Graduation Ceremony, held at the Sandton
Convention Centre, on Saturday 24 February 2007, 120 students graduated
from the Monash University Faculties of Arts, Business and Economics,
Information Technology Engineering and Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences.
Although undergraduate degrees were conferred on most of the 120 students,
for the first time11 Monash South Africa students graduated with honours
degrees. Of these, four students received an Honours Degree of Bachelor
of Business Systems, five graduated with an Honours Degree of Bachelor
of Arts (in either Geography or Communications) and two graduated with
an Honours Degree of Bachelor of Psychology.
Monash University Vice Chancellor and President, Professor Richard Larkins,
said that the university was delighted with the progress of the South
African campus: “We feel that we have an excellent and committed
staff and state-of-the-art teaching facilities. We know that the campus
will go from strength to strength and become a most important part of
the higher education environment in South Africa and contribute to development
of the country in general by providing education and relevant research
and policy development of the highest quality.”
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Honours Degree of Bachelor of Arts graduates from Monash South Africa:
From the left Troy Campbell, Shelley Burt, Adele Vermeulen, Roselle Sherrif and Gerald Pascoe |
He said that the university had worked hard to develop a range of postgraduate
programmes and research training opportunities relevant to current and
future challenges and these programmes will increasingly become available
at the South African campus as well as in Australia and Malaysia.
Prof Larkins said that he trusted that the students were graduating from
Monash not only with educational qualifications that will stand them in
good stead throughout their lives, but also with a set of values that
will help them make the world a better place. ”We believe that you
will have the courage to speak out against discrimination based on race
or beliefs, and against injustice in all forms.”
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