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Pravinesh Chand was named the recipient of the TK Jayaraman Monetary Economics Endowment Awards at the University of the South Pacific.
The award comes with a cash prize of $250 and basically rewards the top-performing student who undertakes the EC410 Monetary Economics unit at Post Graduate level.
Mr Chand received the award at the university’s medals and prizes ceremony at the Oceania Center this week. The teaching assistant graduated with a Masters in Economics yesterday at university’s graduation ceremony at the Vodafone Arena.
Mr Chand said: “This award is an encouragement to me and it also allows me to pursue further areas relating to monetary economics.
“At the moment I will continue with teaching and probably work towards Doctor of Philosophy.”
Endowment background
Dr TK Jayaraman, a former academic of the university, provided the $10,000 endowment funding to reward outstanding students studying advanced Monetary Economics at the post-graduate level.
The interest from the endowment will be used to award a yearly prize of $250 to the top ranking student taking the EC410 course at the university. Dr Jayaraman said rewards was about giving back to the university, the community and to encourage the university staff to provide all support and resources.
The endowment was initiated in 2011 and was formally signed by the Vice-Chancellor and President of USP, Professor Rajesh Chandra and Dr Jayaraman at the Laucala Campus on July 10, 2012.
Mr Chand was also awarded the 2011 Vice Chancellors all round best combined academic performance and all round service to the community gold medalist.
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