Complex sentence: In 1973, he was awarded the Colombo Plan Scholarship from Singapore to study a combine degree program in Engineering and Commerce at the University of Newcastle in Australia and graduated in 1977 with a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours Class I) and Bachelor of Commerce.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1973, he was awarded the Colombo Plan Scholarship from Singapore to study a combined degree program in Engineering and Commerce at the University of Newcastle in Australia. He graduated in 1977 with a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours Class I) and Bachelor of Commerce.