THE NORTHERN Caribbean University's (NCU) Department of Professional and Continuing Education has honoured over two hundred students from its extension campuses for their excellent academic achievement.
The Department of Professional and Continuing Education, which manages the extension campuses, over a three day period from May 24 hosted its annual series of Honours Convocations in Kingston, Browns Town and Montego Bay respectively, under the theme "Empowerment through Education - The Tradition of Excellence".
A total of 119 students from the Kingston campus, 84 from the Montego Bay campus and 21 from the Browns' Town campus were honoured during the awards ceremonies. An additional 56 students from the Continuing Education Department on the Mandeville campus will be honoured on June 2, when the ceremonies come to an end. The additional numbers from the Mandeville campus will bring the total number of awardees to 280.
HIGHEST AWARD
The 280 awardees represent 17 per cent of the 1500 students enrolled in the Continuing Education program. Eight students received the highest award of Summa cum laude, 54 walked away with Magna cum laude, 55 with Cum laude and one hundred and sixty three made the honours list.
Honours Convocation is a yearly event put on by the University to honour its students for their outstanding academic performance. During this ceremony students are admonished to continue in their quest for excellence as "higher than the highest human thoughts can reach, is God's ideal for His children".
