Growing up, Silpa Shayal Kumar was frequently reminded of the importance of education.

Holding on to eve­rything her parents taught her, Ms Ku­mar graduated with an Executive Master of Business Admin­istration last week.

Ms Kumar, who has six years of experi­ence in the Phar­macy business, de­cided to study arts to prepare herself for management roles in future and to gain knowledge from an administration view­point.

Despite the challenges she encoun­tered, Ms Kumar always reminded herself to endure now and enjoy later.

The former Sangam Sadhu Kup­puswamy Memorial College student of Nadi is currently the supervising pharmacist at the Colonial War Me­morial (CWM) Hospital in Suva.

“My parents are both teachers so from the start the importance of education was taught to us there­fore they pushed me to further my studies,” Ms Kumar said.

“Through my achievements I have uplifted the morale of most of my family members and most of them are pursuing fur­ther studies. My sis­ter is about to finish her MBBS as well and I believe I act as a role model for her.

“I believe that you should always push yourself to do bet­ter because you never know what you are capable of unless you try to.”

She said COVID-19 was one of the chal­lenges she encoun­tered while studying as she had to shift from face-to-face mode of learning to online learning.

Ms Kumar said learning never stops.

“Professionally I am a registered pharmacist therefore the current programme that I have completed was totally new to my background study, but this programme made me improve in areas which need leader­ship and development,” she said.

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