IUM graduates are ready for work 0 Marking yet another milestone in its impactful 14 year career as a university, the International University of Management (IUM) graduated just over 1 700 students on Monday in Windhoek at the Dorado Park main campus, in 37 different programmes offered at the institution, on degree, diploma and certificate levels. Addressing the guests and graduates at the ceremony as the keynote speaker, Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila, said that she was remarkably impressed with the growth of IUM, taken that the university now housed more than 8 000 students, from the 1 000 that attended IUM in 2002.
The Prime Minister also added in her address that this was the generation to “offer new ideas and new energy to meet the challenges we face as a country, because it is moments like these when we prove what we are really worth.” She said that she was excited for the graduates because she knows that they truly are ready to take on the challenge of helping Namibia grow into the age of prosperity.
Kuugongelwa-Amadhila also noted how education in Namibia has grown in leaps and bounds in the last several years. “In 2004, the gross enrollment ratio in tertiary education stood at 6%. By 2014, the enrollment ratio rose to 20.2%. Both demand and supply factors are responsible for the rising ratio,” she said.
She encouraged students to “not be content or even reckless” with what they have been given and “take what you do and how you live your life seriously”.
Earlier this year IUM also had a graduation ceremony for honorary degrees that were given to prominent and influential business personalities in the Namibian landscape.