Imtiaz Sooliman – . , The Da Vinci Institute’s 2020 Laureate the value of a Doctoral qualification

Thank you very much. Darwin's Institute, Professor Kirsten,

Professor Ben Anderson, I don't know everybody's names, sorry.

Thank you very much for the invite and for this honor that you've

given me a special thank you to the guys that did the real hard

work, all you 14 Doctor candidates who done amazingly well, I've been

to many, many doctoral graduations, I must tell you, but

you guys are really serious about your guys' thesis and the way you

guys do things.

Congratulations. The country needs people for innovation, education

studies. And before I go give you a little bit of my background, I

just want to make a little comment about the doctoral thesis that we

select. We find that universities throughout the country, many

students go about doing doctorates. The important question

is this, do we do a doctoral thesis just to take the register

to get our degree, or we are serious about changing situations

in the country? Do we study those doctorates of fine, innovative

ways to find credible solutions to the multifarious problems in the

different disciplines in our country, because we have libraries

full of research documents over and over again. Does anybody ever

take those documents and implement it to better the lives of the

people in this country. Universities have to look at that

very seriously, because you put a lot of effort into this thing.

It's years and years, or it's sometimes two years of hard work.

You wait for months for the Ethics Committee to get you your

approval, and then you sit for hours, sacrificing your family.

You have the your course coordinators and those looking

after you, your supervisors checking what you're doing. But

all that money is not of no use, even though doctors are not

implemented for the benefit of society.