University school of business hosts event to promote course

By JEFFREY ELAPA
University of PNG’s school of business and public policy will be holding its post-graduate studies pinnacle today to showcase to the public post-graduate study skills and knowledge acquired over the past two years.
The pinnacle will also coincide with a farewell function for MBA students at UPNG’s main lecture theatre.
Thirty middle-management and business management executives will complete the two-year programme.
The pinnacle is an opportunity for students to showcase what they have learnt through quizzes, debates and other displays.
It is also a day for the university to expose its programmes to the wider executives and middle management of the public service and private sector.
The course offered at the university is a home-grown programme similar to programmes offered anywhere in the world.
Deputy executive dean (academic) of the school of business and public policy, Ponnussay Manchar, said more than 300 Papua New Guineans had graduated from the school since its interception in 2013.
Manchar said the 30 students this year would be graduating with MBAs next March.
He said the programme had graduated some high-profile persons like Finance Minister James Marape and the chief commissioner of Customs Ray Paul.
The programme offers masters’ degrees in business administration, business economic and public policy, strategic management, human resource management and business policy,
The theme of this year’s pinnacle is ‘Challenges of SMEs in PNG’.