Graduates need to be creative: President

President Abdul Hamid has told graduates that they need to be creative. He was speaking at the 48th convocation of Dhaka University Monday. He said getting a degree was not enough. “Your education must make you enlightened people with a creative personality." Hamid, who is also the university’s ex-officio chancellor, urged everyone to work to fulfil the nation’s dreams. He advised the university to lay a greater emphasis on research, according to a news agency. Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the director general of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), was the convocation speaker. He was awarded a Doctor of Science degree, honouris causa. A total of 8,312 graduates took their degrees from the president. Among them were 38 PhDs, 25 M.Phils., 33 gold medalists, 33 MD-MS, 4,680 honours graduates, 855 masters, 282 BDS, 221 nursing graduates, 201 physiotherapists, one education faculty, 47 homeopathy and ayurvedic pass-outs, 103 B.Eds., and 72 M.Eds. The president appealed to student bodies to foster positive politics. He said this in the light of the recent deaths of two students, reportedly over political rivalry, in the universities of Mymensingh and Rajshahi.