Nine Filipino students successfully completed their management and marketing course at De Montfort University (DMU) of Leicester, United Kingdom and attended the graduation rites presided by its Philippine partner-institution, Southville International School affiliated with Foreign Universities (SISFU).
The business degree program of the DMU School of Strategic Management and Marketing is the culmination of a three-year course in business management and marketing taken up by the students and which started with the Higher National Diploma from Pearson Qualification, also in the United Kingdom.
The new graduates consider their graduation as an important event that has given them a deep sense of fulfillment and further inspired them to face with confidence the many challenges of the global marketplace with the knowledge and skills they have acquired from Pearson and DMU.
They said that they are all set to embark on their chosen career paths through the jobs they currently hold and that they are eager to start another chapter in their professional life.
Pamela Almero, summa cum laude of the class, has plans to go abroad for a stint with an international company before pursuing a Master of Business Administration degree.
Dara Romualdez has been offered a job at an international company even before she graduated, while Karen Herico is set to fly to Dubai to join her father in the field of agri-business.
Marjory Mallorca and Janina Gonzales said that they were ready to work in their respective family enterprises, where they are expected to make their own marks.
Beatriz Galang plans to go back to Oman and join the marketing department of an oil company, while Francesca Pineda is leaving for the United States to work. Samantha Tanaleon will pursue a master’s degree after working with a finance company. .
Karen Ebihara, who attained the highest grade in her class during the final year of the DMU program, will soon undertake further studies to become an academician.
SISFU is the only local educational institution that offers British and Australian degrees in the Philippines.
Among the degree and diploma courses it offers are Business Management, Finance and Accounting, Human Resource Management, Marketing, Culinary Arts, and Master of Business Administration.
For more information, visit the SISFU website www.southville.edu.ph.or call (632) 820-6774.