Enoch Sasieh: a great ambassador for his university

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND

USQ SPRINGFIELD INTERNATIONAL STUDENT Enoch Sasieh loves his university.

He loves it so much in fact; he has become a USQ voluntary ambassador when visiting his Papua New Guinean home and has already encouraged two students to enroll in 2013.

As a third year Bachelor of Accounting and Sustainable Business student, Enoch enjoys speaking to prospective students about his experiences studying at USQ and encourages them to consider the university as an option in the future.

Enoch, who studied a Diploma of Accounting in PNG said he initially chose to study at USQ as his application was processed so efficiently by the university.

“I’d heard about USQ through my brother who was studying at the Toowoomba campus,” Enoch said.

 “He had a great experience and the things he told me about smaller class sizes and lecturers who go out of their way to assist you, really appealed to me.

“I hope to become a business analyst or an auditor in PNG in the future and the program I’ve chosen will help me to assist my community and companies to be more reliable in their practices without overusing natural resources.”

Enoch has been voluntarily promoting USQ since he began his studies, and now takes boxes of promotional material home with him to hand out at open days.

“I distributed two boxes of magazines at the last open day and spoke to students about the high quality of teaching at USQ and even assisted some to fill in application forms,” he said.

“My best advice to prospective PNG international students is to work hard and get good marks in year twelve.

“For some students it is quite challenging undertaking university level studies overseas.

“‘I advise them to have confidence in themselves and trust they can make a difference in their community and country in the future.”

Springfield Campus Executive Manager Doug Fraser said it was wonderful to have a student as enthusiastic as Enoch on campus.

“We find many students come to USQ through word of mouth from current students who have enjoyed their tertiary experience with us.

“To have Enoch voluntarily want to share his experiences with prospective students in PNG and act as a touchstone for those students when they arrive to study at the campus is invaluable.”

Comments

[Timothy Poroda]

It is enthusiastic to read this article. Education starts and ends with death, as Enoch is trying to do for his life and the people.

Enoch as a PNG nationalist has a heart for the upcoming education elites in the country and has done fine job to inform students about the university.

Moreover, our PNG government can take initiatives to sponsor young elites to go and acquire knowledge abroad and contribute to this exciting nation and achieve our Vision 2050.

[Robert Jikavi]

It is really encouraging to my life as a student to contemplate continuing my study overseas.

Thank you, Enoch, for coming out in public and encouraging PNG students to attend university in Queensland.

We need plenty of people like Enoch that can do such activity to boost the local PNG student morale and to really work hard.

We can see such people as role models and follow in his footsteps. If many PNG students go out and do their studies in such a high standard university, I think PNG will be in a better position to achieve Vision 2050. They can bring good development in our country.

Therefore I encourage other people like Enoch to come out and encourage the students in PNG so they will get really serious in their school work.

[Nevegapa Abeya Sam]

Students who attend overseas universities should encourage more students to go out and study in other countries.

When PNG students are accepted from outside universities, they must discipline themselves to be a good role models. Doing so will help accept more students from PNG to go and study.

Students who are already in the system should practice it now for the good of PNG.