Some 250 people participated in the graduation of the 50th graduating class of ISSA School of Management Assistants and the fourth graduating class of Degree at attendance de Dirección. The event, in which 27 students graduated, was held on Saturday, June 4 at TECNUN, the School of Engineers. With them, a total of 3,210 alumni have passed through the classrooms of this center, which began its activity in 1963 in the Eva-enea palace (Villa Eva), in San Sebastian.

The Alumni Vice President , Tomás Gómez-Acebo, and the director of ISSA, Mª Jesús Álvarez, presided over the ceremony. During the ceremony, Gómez-Acebo reminded the students that their graduation has a special profile as they are the fiftieth graduating class of the School and the last to have completed their programs of study at campus in San Sebastián: "a symbolic issue that rounds off a great story," he said . The students of the 51st graduating class, who will graduate next year, started the Degree in attendance of Management at campus in Pamplona.

The workshop began at 11 a.m. with a mass in the chapel of high school Santa Teresa, followed by the academic ceremony at sports center of TECNUN.

 

The keynote lecture was given at position by Ana María Fernández, PhD in Classical Philology and professor at the University. In her exhibition, which was entitled "Time of networks: digital paradoxes, values of hope" she emphasized how the digital revolution transforms our civilization, highlighted the enormous benefits it procures, and at the same time warned of the dangers it can bring. "In 2015 more than 3 billion people were connected to the Internet, 40% of the world's population," he noted. And he recalled that the Internet is no longer science fiction, but "a reality that has just begun and we do not glimpse its limits."

In this sense, he encouraged recent graduates to value the multidirectional communication that social networks allow: "Let's build timelines that deeply question to explore better and fuller lives".

Magdalena Zarza, course delegate, gave an emotional speech speech in which she recalled their first days in the ISSA mansion and in San Sebastian, some of their subjects and their teachers, their trips to Pamplona and even the move to TECNUN, where they studied the last two years of Degree. She also expressed her gratitude on behalf of all her classmates for the moments shared during the four years of degree program.

3.4 offers from work for each newcomer graduate

Since its inception, ISSA School of Management Assistants has been in permanent contact with the labor market at contact , allowing it to adapt to the needs of organizations at all times. Thus, today it trains professionals in attendance where languages, communication, new technologies and management, are some of the pillars of its training. 

In order to obtain the Degree , 100% of the students carry out internships in national and international companies. Currently the average offer of work stands at 3.4 per new student graduate.