-UG Tain Campus graduates told
Valedictorian Muniram Purnawasi told graduates at the 11th convocation of the University of Guyana’s Berbice Campus held two Saturdays ago that success is born of persistence and the fact that they have made it so far is an indication of their ability to overcome and excel.
“It’s not that I’m so smarter than the world, it’s just that I spent longer time on problem,” Purnawasi said, quoting famous physicist Albert Einstein to the 2012 class of 231 graduates. In sharing his journey at the university, Purnawasi said there had been many struggles and disappointments. “How the Math group came together as a class is an interesting story. It started several years ago. A few of my colleagues were eager to do the Degree in Education-Mathematics Programme, a course that was never offered at this Campus. We were advised to get a group of ten interested persons and perhaps the university will offer the course for the first time,” he said.
The “search for interested and trained Mathematics teachers began…but it took us almost half a decade to reach the number ten.” Then the first part of the course was offered in 2008 as promised at Berbice Campus but at the end of two years, the
