20th November 2024
The University of Fiji School of Business and Economics Best Student Awards
The graduates of the University of Fiji’s School of Business and Economics stand out not only for the quality of their formal qualifications, but also for the soft skills and the human values foundation of their programmes in each of the Departments of Accounting and Finance, Economics and Management in the School. Thus, their employability in a new corporate world that valued community and environmental responsibilities, alongside the profit margin, was assured”
This was stated by the Vice Chancellor, Professor Shaista Shameem, as Chief Guest of the School of Business and Economics (SOBE) Awards Night held at the University of Fiji. The event was held to honour students at all levels who had exhibited exceptional results in their programmes and to reward them for their hard work and dedication to their studies.
Prominent Sponsors of the Awards Night were Jacks of Fiji, Punjas, Sun Insurance, Ernst & Young and LICI.
In thanking the sponsors for their support, Professor Shameem said that the University of Fiji had a deep-seated human values foundation, meaning that the programmes offered by the University included the basic attributes of ethics, integrity, humanity and public good principles.
She said that one of the essential lessons students learnt was that whatever business or work that they did must be influenced by doing good to humanity and to all living creatures, as well as to the planet.
‘’In view of the ecological and climate crisis facing the world, we need to show how we can conduct ourselves and run our businesses and corporations without making it impossible for the next generation, and indeed the planet, to survive”.
Professor Shameem said that corporate responsibility was an important part of the University’s focus as its graduates had to illustrate by example that conducting business for profit did not mean that they had to destroy the planet in the process. This meant that, as a matter of urgency, everyone had reconsider ways in which work, employment, the economy and productivity were to be defined.
“Corporations need to look at their carbon footprint and re-examine their business practices to ensure that harm to people and the environment was eliminated”, she said.
The University was looking to forge partnerships with entities which had similar respect for such human values. It also encouraged its graduates to seek employment in industries that expressed such corporate responsibility and sustainable business practices in their strategic and operational plans.
Professor Shameem said that graduates who received the Awards will be an asset to any future employer as they had acquired not only top-notch formal qualifications with international accreditation but also the soft skills required by forward-looking and socially and environmentally responsible corporations and public bodies.
School of Business and Economics – Awards 2024
| Department of Accounting and Finance | Student Name (Winners) |
| Outstanding Year 1 Accounting and Finance Student -2024 | Shradha Kumar |
| Outstanding Business Finance Student – 2024 | Arisha Sami |
| Outstanding Taxation Law and Practice Students 2024 | Shane Shandil
Ruqayyah Hakim |
| Outstanding Business Law Student 2024 | Arisha Sami |
| Outstanding Auditing and Assurance Services Student 2024 | Ruqayyah Hakim |
| Department of Management | |
| Outstanding Year 1 Management Student 2024 | Anushri Chand
Lusiana Nawaqadau |
| Outstanding Year 2 Management Student 2024 | Anare Ramanakiwai |
| Outstanding Marketing management student 2024 | Tarfeeha Nuzhat
Naomi Dainamati |
| Outstanding Human Resource Management Student 2024 | Tarfeeha Nuzhat |
| Department of Economics | |
| Outstanding Year 1 Economics Student 2024 | Shayal Shasna
Shradha Kumar |
| Outstanding Monetary Economics Student 2024 | Arisha Sami |
| Outstanding Basic Econometrics Student 2024 | Ruqayyah Hakim
Komal Prasad |
| Outstanding Internationa Economics Students 2024 | Arisha Sami
Shayal Shashna |
| Outstanding International Economics Student 2024 | Ruqayyah Hakim |
| Outstanding Departmental Awards | |
| Most Outstanding Accounting and Finance Student 2024 | Komal Prasad
Sanskar Kapadia Fatima Siddeqa |
| Most Outstanding Economics Student 2024 | Ruqayyah Hakim |
| Most Outstanding Management Student 2024 | Tarfeeha Nuzhat |
| Most Outstanding Student of School of Business and Economics | |
| Most Outstanding Student of the School of Business and Economics 2024 | Ruqayyah Hakim |
