ON 22ND NOVEMBER, 2016 AND THE 31ST GRADUATION CEREMONY ON 24TH NOVEMBER, 2016
We are pleased to announce that the Annual Convocation will be
held at the Basement floor of the ODL Tower, at OUT Headquarters in Kinondoni, Dar es Salaam, from 0800-1300hrs, on Tuesday 22nd November, 2016. The Main Lecture on the theme, THE ROLE OF ODL IN THE PROMOTION OF THE INDUSTRIALIZED ECONOMY IN TANZANIA, will be presented by His Excellence Benjamini William Mkapa (Dr. Honoris Causa), the former President of the United Republic of Tanzania. All Alumni, Staff, the General public, and OUT well-wishers are invited. Prospective graduands are also invited. Furthermore, the 31st Graduation Ceremony of the Open University of Tanzania will be held at Bungo, Kibaha, on Thursday 24th November, 2016 as scheduled. Names of graduating candidates will be posted on the University Website on 30th October 2016. Graduating candidates must be at the venue by 08.00 am, on the day 1
of graduation, for a dress-rehearsal and roll call. Only names of
candidates present at the roll call will be read during the ceremony. We remind that only those candidates who will have completed payment of university fees will be allowed to attend the ceremony. A non refundable fee of Tsh 52,000 (50,000 for an Academic Gown and 2,000 for Graduation Booklet) should be deposited into the OUT IGU Account, NBC Corporate branch, Acc no. 11103033490. Those who will have completed financial clearance from the DFA will be allowed to collect Graduation gowns from the stores at Bungo, Kibaha, from Monday 21st November, 2016. We furthermore wish to announce that graduating candidates from Iringa, Njombe, Mbeya, Katavi, Rukwa and Songea regions will be conferred their degrees at the 32nd Graduation ceremony, to be held in early 2017 in Njombe region; further information about the 32nd graduation will be released before December 2017. Some late, but successful candidates who will have missed the 31st Graduation Ceremony will also be conferred their awards at the 32nd Graduation Ceremony in Njombe. These names will be published by 10th December, 2016, after being approved by relevant bodies. Once again, I wish to congratulate all those who have so far successfully completed their studies.