{"id":2670,"date":"2025-05-08T05:44:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T05:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.govmu.org\/president\/?p=2670"},"modified":"2025-05-16T03:25:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T03:25:49","slug":"reception-of-laureates-2023-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.govmu.org\/president\/reception-of-laureates-2023-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Reception of Laureates 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2670\" class=\"elementor elementor-2670\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-df85fd2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"df85fd2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ad144cb elementor-arrows-position-inside elementor-pagination-position-outside elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-carousel\" 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elementor-swiper-button-prev\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"eicon-chevron-left\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-swiper-button elementor-swiper-button-next\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"eicon-chevron-right\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-pagination\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-321e98c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"321e98c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-611af19 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"611af19\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a\"><div dir=\"auto\">An absolute joy and honour to host the laureates of the HSC batch 2024 today at the State House, in presence of the Hon&#8217; Prime Minister Dr Navin Ramgoolam, H.E Vice President Robert Hungley, the Hon&#8217; Minister of Education Dr Mahend Gungapersad, and other eminent personalities.<\/div><\/div><div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"><div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div><div dir=\"auto\">I commend and congratulate our laureates as well as their parents, educators and everyone who played an instrumental role in shaping their journey.<\/div><\/div><div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"><div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div><div dir=\"auto\">In a world dominated by Artificial Intelligence, climate change, digital economies, social transformations as well as tensions and conflicts, the future will be shaped by people who decide how technology is used, for what ends, and in whose interests.<\/div><\/div><div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"><div dir=\"auto\">I urge our future leaders and innovators to embrace this new world with an open mind, responsibility courage and compassion.<\/div><\/div><div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"><div dir=\"auto\">I also wish them a lot of success as they embrace adulthood and university life. In the face of setbacks and situations that push us to doubt our worth or direction, we must be resilient and patient at all times.<\/div><\/div><div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"><div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div><div dir=\"auto\">As stated by well-known author Maya Angelou: &#8220;You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.&#8221;<\/div><\/div><div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"><div dir=\"auto\">We will continue to work towards providing our youths with everything they need to fulfil their dreams.<\/div><\/div><div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"><div dir=\"auto\">To our brilliant young minds: Always try to reach for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars.<\/div><\/div><div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"><div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div><div dir=\"auto\">We count on you to shape a better Mauritius and a better world for all.<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An absolute joy and honour to host the laureates of the HSC batch 2024 today at the State House, in presence of the Hon&#8217; Prime Minister Dr Navin Ramgoolam, H.E Vice President Robert Hungley, the Hon&#8217; Minister of Education Dr Mahend Gungapersad, and other eminent personalities.\u00a0I commend and congratulate our laureates as well as their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.govmu.org\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.govmu.org\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.govmu.org\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.govmu.org\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.govmu.org\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2670"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/president.govmu.org\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2692,"href":"https:\/\/president.govmu.org\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions\/2692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.govmu.org\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.govmu.org\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.govmu.org\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2670"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.govmu.org\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=2670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}