Graduates urged to be agents of change in society Graduates have been urged to be agents of change in the real world after completing school. "The purpose of education is to empower an individual to help improve his or her immediate environment and beyond." Professor Ernest Ofori Asamoah, in-coming President of the Regent University College of Science and Technology, said this at the 14th Graduation Ceremony of the University in Accra. He advised the new graduates to be principled and humble in all their endeavours, saying, "life is always simple and easier if you are humble and principled". Professor Asamoah noted that such qualities were indispensable to the country's quest to achieve food security, restore its vanishing natural resources, and chalk socio-economic progress on the whole.