 ug turkeyen campus to have two convocations ug turkeyen campus to have two convocations ug turkeyen campus to have two convocations webmaster sat 9162017 934 the university of guyana ug s turkeyen campus will this year observe its annual convocation ceremony in two parts vicechancellor dr ivelaw griffith has said the graduation exercise will be held on november 11 and will have two sessions according to dr griffith the move is an attempt to reduce the lengthy hours spent at the graduation ceremony one of the things we are doing differently is we are going to have two graduation ceremonies rather than one there are four to five hours and by the time you get to technology half the people gone the vc said on tuesday why not create two shorter ceremonies and excite people who are graduates to come back he added the two ceremonies will have two former graduates as guest speakers the first session which will be held early in the day will hear from guyana s ambassador to the united nations un and former ug student mr michael tenpow the name of the second speaker is yet to be announced he said the following week on november 18 the tain campus will hold its graduation ceremony and will have as its guest speaker lawyer and graduate ms patricia bacchus the vicechancellor said he hopes to begin a culture of inviting graduates to speak at convocations going forward so that students can see what they can become in the future meanwhile the university has announced that it has added some 16 new programmes courses to the 20172018 academic year these courses include eight from the newly established school of education and business innovation sebi and include the bachelors of science in accounting entrepreneurship finance management marketing supply chain management tourism management and special education needs the other programmes are an associate of science degree in mining engineering and a bachelor of science in either environmental science forestry industrial engineering medicine or surgery there are also the master of social work master of science in agrotechnology and business and master of medicine in diagnostic radiology article adapted  http guyanachroniclecom 20170914 ugturkeyentwoconvocations graduation convocation vicechancellor 