1. Sample Welcoming Speech - by _________________ Dean,
(owner/President,)
Your Excellency Dr. ________________, from Minister of Education,
Your Excellency Dr._________________, from TVET agency
Your Excellency Dr.__________________, from __________
University (polytechnic), College, Instate
Your Excellency______________________
Your Excellency______________________
Respected higher leaders from Addis Ababa city Administration/ district
(Woreda)_______ delegated person
Dear graduates Congratulation!
Graduates families
Welcome Distinguished Invited host and Guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
2. Graduation Participants in general,
On behalf of the ______________________________ business enterprise
consultancy service, I would like to welcome you all to the graduates/
commencement ceremony.
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on the
successful completion of your education. This is indeed good news from
all of us it lays the foundation for a better future for you, your families,
your (future) organization and your country as a whole. While we all
know that, you, the graduates, were the main, actors in this intensive
short term, level, one, two, tree, four-year or five education. You would
not have reached this occasion without the support, devotion and
dedication of the Government of Ethiopia thank you for your Earnest
support.
Consequently, I would like to say that your efforts have paid off (yield
good results)! Several years of hard work with many difficulties
(vicissitudes) of life have ended; it is the junction for the beginning of a
new set of professional duties and responsibilities. After successful
completion of your degree, now you are ready to shoulder
responsibilities and serve your country. The academic commission of
___________ University (polytechnic), college, institute by virtue of the
powers vested on it by the Higher Education Main Department of the
Ministry of Education or TVET agency hereby grants to your level,
3. diploma, Degree. With all Honours, privileges, and obligations
pertaining thereto and in witness thereof has authorized the Issuance of
this level___, diploma, and degree. This would obviously be the first
phase to practice what you have acquired from your education. You
have endured all the challenging, assignments, and both theoretical and
practical work with related to your (future) job. This is because of your
relentless effort and commitment to achieve it. I wish you all success in
your life and best in your future endeavor my advice is that never quit
your professional journey because education never ends! Graduation
day is a pleasant and joyful day because it is a day on which one has
completed his/her education successfully. However, it is not an end of
professional journey but an end of a specific program. Education is an
instrument to combat against social and natural problems. Your
education at ________TVET institute, college, University (polytechnic)
must have created the preliminary awareness some problems. The key to
open door problems and have a better insight is to further study to have a
qualitative understanding of our environment in order to exploit it better.
The difference between developed and developing nations is the level of
their concern on producing human capital development through
education. However, there is a high interest in most of the developing
nations, including Ethiopia, to give in to the call for immediate action
and concern in this regard. Thus, the developing countries to be effective
4. and achieve millennium development goals / MDGs / the only option
should focus on education.
Due to this fact, the government of Ethiopia has established a new
educational reform to meet the challenges of education for enhancing
sustainable development by producing skilled work force that can go in
line with the world of work or that can fill the gap of emerging current
market demand of the country.
Among these educational reforms, the TVET reform is one of the efforts
done to sustain development by means of amending the TVET policy
and strategy to be “Outcome Based” and “Demand driven”.
In order to achieve these, the government of Ethiopia in its GTP II gives
due emphasis for the expansion of TVET institutes in the country to take
a paramount role for the implementation of the reform and supporting
TVET system for the coming five years.
The sector achieved long lasting attainment and confirmed sustainable
development that the key to the system. I would like to add one proverb
with related to education “If you give a man a fish you feed him for a
day”, but if you teach him how to fish you feed him forever”.
This institution also opened to fulfill the above interesting idea work for
our country particularly for youth and adults supporting government
intention as a nation contribution.
5. Hence, we are starting new project broaden or expand our business to
formal TVET institute by the coming New Year 2009 EC will open. We
make feasibility and tracer study as well situational analysis for the
success of the project. The new project name is
_____________________________ the name engineering included
because of the institute have several department of advanced
management information system (MIS). It located in _____ sub-city at
Addis Ababa city Administration in the particular area of district
(Woreda)_____.
My former ________ business enterprise is providing _________ for levels,
diplomas, BA/BSE at this time expanding our consultancy service to MA/MSC
and PhD student the coming next year.
Location of the institute
__________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________.
I intend this project to provide not only short-term training and levels, but
also advanced engineering coerce with related to computer hence, I would like
to say that well come all who want to learn on this institute.
May I take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude and
appreciation to the graduates?
6. Congratulations! Again, to you, this graduation is useful for your (future
career) organizations; your parents and the society as a whole who have
supported you successfully accomplish your study.
I would like to thank you all for the opportunity to deliver speech
address today and to wish you fruitful in the future
I wish you all success in all your future endeavors.