Saint-Louis, June 3 (APS) – Two hundred and twenty students representing five promotions from the Applied Technology Science (SAT) Training and Research Unit of Gaston Berger University (UGB) received their diploma Saturday during the first graduation ceremony organized by this UFR since 1992, noted the APS.
This UFR has been oriented since the license-master-doctorate (LMD) reform “towards a continuous search for the quality of its offers by taking into account the latest technological developments and the improvement of the professionalization of training”, reads- on in a document given to journalists.
The Director of the UFR Sciences Applied to Technology, Professor Abdoulaye Diagne, congratulated the recipients, trained in the fields of information, mathematics and physics.
According to him, this graduation ceremony aims to show the recipients that they have received “good training by showing them the work accomplished by their predecessors.”
“They have received training but it is up to them to consolidate these achievements by entering the labor market, by getting employed or by taking their own initiative”, he told them.
This ceremony also aims to “show the outgoing the expectations placed on them by the authorities, their parents and society in general”, he said.
The Director of the UFR Sciences Applied to Technology, Professor Abdoulaye Dème, congratulated the recipients, all trained in the fields of information, mathematics and physics.
According to him, this graduation ceremony aims to show the recipients that they have received “good training by showing them the work accomplished by their predecessors.”
“They have received training but it is up to them to consolidate these achievements by entering the labor market, by getting employed or by taking their own initiative”, he told them.
This ceremony also aims to “show the outgoing the expectations placed on them by the authorities, their parents and society in general”, he said.
Professor Dème invites them to serve their country in their respective fields, putting forward values such as humility, righteousness and the notion of public service, “as many notions as we wanted to instill in them through the inaugural lesson”.
He points out that brilliant students in the fields of mathematics and physics were rewarded during this graduation ceremony, to encourage them to persevere.
“The course is difficult but they are on the same path, and in a few years, we will receive them here”, indicated the director of the UFR SAT of the UGB, saying he was satisfied with the results achieved by the girls in an environment dominated by men.
He calls on parents to relieve them of household chores a little, believing that girls “can be useful more by helping society than by doing domestic work”.
The inaugural lesson of this graduation ceremony was given by Professor Djiby Diakhaté, on the theme: “Ethics between scientific activity and professional life. A systemic approach to conjunction”.
The first promotion of the UFR Sciences applied to technology was chosen as godmother of this ceremony at which several of its members were present.
They invited their youngest to approach them to benefit from their support in finding a job or setting up their own structure.
The former Secretary General of UGB, Amadou Sy, current Director of General Affairs of Territorial Administration (DAGAT) at the Ministry of the Interior, returned to the early years of UGB, to highlight ” the sacrifices” made by “the pioneers” of this university establishment.
He took this opportunity to invite university authorities and students to work for the maintenance of the UGB label, “the largest institution providing jobs” in Senegal.