From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Sat Oct 10 2009 - 15:19:26 EDT
The Press and Journal, Saturday 10 October 2009
Varsity holds distance graduation
degrees will be conferred on students in Eritrea, Africa
By Mark Dowie
Published: 10/10/2009
DUNDEE University will today hold a graduation with a difference, as
none of the students have actually visited the varsity.
Degrees will be conferred on 40 students in Eritrea, north-east Africa,
who have graduated from Dundee's distance learning courses.
Professor Margaret Smith, dean of the school of nursing and midwifery,
will present 22 bachelor of nursing degrees and 18 bachelor of art
degrees in professional development.
The ceremony, hosted by the Eritrean ministry of health, will be held in
the capital city Asmara, and one of the nursing graduates will be
Amanuel Gerahtu, brother of Tesfamicael Gerahtu, the Eritrean ambassador
to Britain and Ireland.
Dundee University has worked with students in Eritrea, which is still
recovering from a war with neighbouring Ethiopia, since 2003.
Courses have been provided in the country by the school of nursing and
midwifery's distance learning centre, the school of education, and
social work and community education.
Prof Smith said: "This ceremony will take the number of Dundee graduates
in Eritrea to 100, a tremendous achievement and one with potential for
advancing even greater change in the country.
"Achieving change is dependent on individuals who are inspirational and
innovative and who see new solutions for age-old problems.
"With these programmes we're operating in Eritrea, and the success the
students have made of them, we are helping to provide those kind of
leaders."
Prof Smith also carried a letter of congratulation to Eritrea from
Dundee's principal, Professor Peter Downes, to the country's minister of
health.
It marks the forthcoming graduation of the first group of medical
students from Orrotta Medical School in Asmara.
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