The boss of data analysis
Michelline Nawatises
Agnes Ulipamwe Nicodemus was born and raised in Oukwandongo village in the Omusati Region. She attended high school at Oshakati Secondary School and after that, she went to the University of Science and Technology where she completed her bachelor and honours degrees in applied mathematics and statistics.
She is a statistician at the National Council for Higher Education.
Her job is mostly about designing data collection tools, collecting and analysing data, and compiling the higher education statistical yearbook.
Data on student enrolment in higher education institutions, the number of programmes, pass rates, infrastructure, revenue, expenditure and staff numbers and qualifications are the content of the education reporting which inform and drive educational planning.
She said her biggest challenges have been talking in front of people, which she overcame by opportunities granted to her to speak at meetings and presenting at conferences on higher education quality assurances.
“I also had difficulties of analysing data using SPSS, which became part of the history after practising it in a real-life situation, especially when working with graduate survey data.”
Her typical day consists of data analysis. “Excel is the everyday tool and communication to the higher education institutions,” she said.
Nicodemus loves reading motivational books, travelling as well as learning and seeing new things that inspire her to do and be better.
The advice she’d give to the young people is to always stay focused on what you want in life and to never give up.
“Your mind is your biggest tool to achieve what you want, always feed it positively,” she said.
In future, she plans to finish her Master's degree, upgrade in her career and travel to a dream destination.
If she had the opportunity to change something in the world, she would change our education system, which she feels is teaching people to just be employees instead of job creators. “
“Financial literacy will be my big addition to the education system,” she said.
Agnes Ulipamwe Nicodemus was born and raised in Oukwandongo village in the Omusati Region. She attended high school at Oshakati Secondary School and after that, she went to the University of Science and Technology where she completed her bachelor and honours degrees in applied mathematics and statistics.
She is a statistician at the National Council for Higher Education.
Her job is mostly about designing data collection tools, collecting and analysing data, and compiling the higher education statistical yearbook.
Data on student enrolment in higher education institutions, the number of programmes, pass rates, infrastructure, revenue, expenditure and staff numbers and qualifications are the content of the education reporting which inform and drive educational planning.
She said her biggest challenges have been talking in front of people, which she overcame by opportunities granted to her to speak at meetings and presenting at conferences on higher education quality assurances.
“I also had difficulties of analysing data using SPSS, which became part of the history after practising it in a real-life situation, especially when working with graduate survey data.”
Her typical day consists of data analysis. “Excel is the everyday tool and communication to the higher education institutions,” she said.
Nicodemus loves reading motivational books, travelling as well as learning and seeing new things that inspire her to do and be better.
The advice she’d give to the young people is to always stay focused on what you want in life and to never give up.
“Your mind is your biggest tool to achieve what you want, always feed it positively,” she said.
In future, she plans to finish her Master's degree, upgrade in her career and travel to a dream destination.
If she had the opportunity to change something in the world, she would change our education system, which she feels is teaching people to just be employees instead of job creators. “
“Financial literacy will be my big addition to the education system,” she said.
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