Seventeen Tongan graduates were awarded their degrees, diplomas and certificates, during the two-day graduation ceremonies at  the University of the South Pacific’s (USP) Laucala Campus, on 31 August and 1 September, at the Vodafone Building, Suva Fiji.

USP Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Pal Ahluwalia welcomed the graduands.

Over a 1000 students were listed in the two graduation ceremonies.

The 17 from Tonga received awards from the listed programmes: 

• Postgraduate Diploma in Agriculture
• Bachelor of Arts
• Bachelor of Arts (Environmental Science) x 3
• Bachelor of Science x 3
• Master of Information Systems
• Certificate III in Small Business Development & Management
• Postgraduate Diploma in Commerce
• Postgraduate Diploma in Border Security
• Bachelor of Laws x 3
• Postgraduate Diploma in Climate Change

(One student graduated in absentia).

Some 26 students from USP’s Samoa Campus also joined the August Graduation Ceremony along with a cohort of 30 teachers from the Fijian Province of Ra, who completed their master’s degrees in education.

Professor Ahluwalia said that students from 19 countries graduated this August and September, including eight from non-member countries.