Nyusi urges graduates to solve problems of communities

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Nyusi urges graduates to solve problems of communities

7:24 CAT | 11 Sep 2017

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Friday challenged new graduates from the Nampula delegation of the Pedagogic University, the country’s largest institution of higher education, not to rest while they have not found solutions to the main problems that afflict their communities.

He was speaking at the 14th graduation ceremony held by the university in Nampula, at which over 100 students received their degree certificates.

“I’d like to challenge you not to rest as long as your work does not fully solve the needs of communities, starting here in Nampula city and the surrounding area”, urged Nyusi, calling on the graduates to adopt “an ever bolder and more innovative attitude”.

He called on them to step up their interventions in the community, applying what they had learnt and researched into order to transform social and economic reality into tangible gains for the population.

Nyusi warned that this would only be possible if they were able to exert a positive influence in changing centuries old habits, customs and beliefs which are a brake on progress.

He urged them to “adopt management criteria which contribute to greater production and scientific productivity, based on high standards of excellence”.

He reminded them of a recommendation he had made last Wednesday at the opening in Maputo of a Congress of engineers. “I reminded them that engineers don’t comment on problems”, he said. “They analyse them and look for solutions”.

He wanted those graduating from the Pedagogic University to take the same attitude. Graduation ceremonies, Nyusi added, were not just festive occasions, but moments for a collective reflection so that each citizen can improve his or her performance and become a useful member of society.

The president also urged the graduates to take an entrepreneurial attitude that could lead to the creation of jobs and of self-employment. “Free yourselves from the protests of professional dependence or the idea that graduates should be automatically employed and receive a salary”, he said. “An entrepreneurial attitude should also be expressed through a more pro-active and innovative stance in your jobs, in companies, in public and private institutions, and in other organisations, in the search for the best solutions to achieve the objectives laid down”.

Society, Nyusi said, also expects that the graduates will spread the general and technical knowledge they have acquired to those who never had an opportunity to attend a university, thus generating a multiplier effect. They should become models to which other young Mozambicans would compare themselves.

The Nampula delegation of the Pedagogical University had opened in 1995, and Nyusi had once taught mathematics there. He recalled that in its early days the Nampula delegation had just five teachers and nine other staff. 22 years later, the university has grown and gained autonomy, he said, “making reality of the collective dream to provide high level cadres to speed up growth and development”.

This growth in quantity and quality, he said, was clear justification for the government’s policy of dividing the Pedagogic University into four autonomous institutions.

This policy, announced last Monday, will see the establishment of four new universities, so far named simply as UP-headquarters, UP-south, UP-centre and UP-north.

Source: AIM