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Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the associated ceremony. The date of event is often called degree day. In the United States and Canada, it is also used to refer to the advancement from a primary or secondary school level. Many colleges have different traditions associated with the graduation ceremony, the best-known probably being throwing mortarboards in the air. Academic procession at the University of Canterbury graduation ceremony 2004. ...
Academic procession at the University of Canterbury graduation ceremony 2004. ...
The University of Canterbury is located in the suburbs of the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. ...
A degree is any of a wide range of status levels conferred by institutions of higher education, such as universities, normally as the result of successfully completing a program of study. ...
Graduation portrait of Linus Pauling, 1922 A mortarboard is an item of academic headgear consisting of a horizontal square board fixed upon a skull-cap, with a tassel attached to the centre. ...
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Graduation ceremonies in the United States are often orchestrated procedures involving a march of students onto the stage, the reading of speeches, the giving of diplomas, and an official moment when the students are declared graduated, also called the commencement exercise. The march is often set to music, usually Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1. In respect for the graduates, the audience is asked to rise to their feet during the processional as the graduates enter the auditorium and remain standing through the invocation. In United States colleges and universities, the speakers will include the salutatorian, an alumnus of the institution, possibly a famous speaker not associated with the institution, and the valedictorian. The giving of diplomas usually takes up the longest portion of the ceremony: One by one the graduates come forward as their names and major/minor announced. Each of them is given a diploma by an academic administrator or official such as the dean. It is very common for graduates not to receive their actual diploma at the ceremony but instead a certificate indicating that they participated in the ceremony or a booklet to hold the diploma in. At the high school level, this allows teachers to withhold diplomas from students who are unruly during the ceremony; at the college level, this allows students who need an extra quarter or semester to participate in the official ceremony with their classmates. Sir Edward Elgar Sir Edward Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer. ...
The Pomp and Circumstance Marches, op. ...
The term college (Latin collegium) is most often used today to denote an educational institution. ...
Representation of a university class, 1350s. ...
In the United States and Canada, the title of salutatorian is given to the second highest graduate of the entire graduating class of an educational institution. ...
An alumnus (masculine) or alumna (feminine) is a former student of a college, university, or school. ...
In the United States and Canada, the title of valedictorian (an anglicized derivation from the Latin vale dicere to say farewell) is given to the top graduate of the graduating class (compare dux) of an educational institution. ...
A diploma (from Greek diploma) is a certificate or deed issued by an educational institution, such as a university, that testifies that the recipient has successfully completed a particular course of study, or confers an academic degree. ...
An academic major is a mainly U.S. term for a university students main field of specialisation during his or her bachelors degree studies. ...
An academic administration is a branch of university or college employees responsible for the maintenance and supervision of the institution and separate from the research and teaching faculty. ...
In an educational setting, a dean is a person with significant authority . ...
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A teachers room in a Japanese middle school, 2005. ...
The term college (Latin collegium) is most often used today to denote an educational institution. ...
An academic term is a division of an academic year, the time during which a school, college or university holds classes. ...
An academic term is a division of an academic year, the time during which a school, college or university holds classes. ...
 Traditional "hat toss" at a graduation ceremony at the United States Naval Academy At most colleges and universities in the US, the faculty technically will recommend that each candidate be given a degree, which is then formally conferred by the President or other institutional official. Typically, this is accomplished by a pair of short set speeches by a senior academic official and a senior institutional official: "Mr. President, on behalf of the faculty of Letters and Science, I hereby declare that these candidates have met all the requirements for the degree of...and request that such degree be conferred upon them." "Under the authority vested in me by the State of Iowa and the Trustees of Podunk College, I hereby confer upon these candidates the degree of..." Download high resolution version (1000x665, 149 KB)050527-N-0295M-001 Annapolis, Maryland. ...
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Graduation speech A graduation speech, in the U.S., is a public speech given by a student or by alumnus of a university to a graduating class and their guests. Common themes of the graduation speech include wishing the graduates well in the "real world," cautioning that the world of academe is a special place where they were taught to think (a common variation contradicts this view). Ultimately, the speech is ceremonial, with attempts of humor and little wisdom or insight. Most recently, especially in prestigious institutions, the trend has been to find a celebrity (often one with no apparent connection to the specific institution or education in general) or a politician to deliver speeches.
United Kingdom In the United Kingdom, unlike the United States, students do not usually 'graduate' from school below university level. They will normally leave secondary school and sixth form college (if applicable) with specific qualifications, often GCSEs and A-levels respectively (Standard Grades and Higher National Courses in Scotland). However, these are not diplomas and are not necessarily presented in a formal ceremony. High school - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...
A sixth form college is an educational institution in England, Wales or Northern Ireland where students aged 16 to 18 complete post-compulsary further education qualifications, such as A Levels. ...
GCSE is an acronym that can refer to: General Certificate of Secondary Education global common subexpression elimination - an optimisation technique used by some compilers This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
An A-level, short for Advanced Level, is a General Certificate of Education usually taken during Further Education and after GCSEs. ...
Standard Grades are Scotlands educational qualifications for students aged around 15-16 years. ...
In Scotland the Higher is one of the national school-leaving certificate exams and university entrance qualifications of the Scottish Qualifications Certificate (SQC) offered by the Scottish Qualifications Authority which superceded the old Higher Grade on the Scottish Certificate of Education (SCE). ...
Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within Europe Scotlands location within the United Kingdom Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ...
A diploma awarded for the completion of high school. ...
Many university graduation ceremonies in the United Kingdom begin with a procession of academics, wearing academic regalia. This procession is accompanied by music, and a ceremonial mace is often carried. However, Pomp and Circumstance is not played, since this is a patriotic hymn. After this, an official reads out the names of the graduates one by one, organized by class of degree or by subject. When their names are called, the graduates walk across the stage to shake hands with a senior official, often the university's nominal Chancellor or the more important vice-chancellor, and receive their degree certificate. Graduates usually wear the academic regalia of the degree they are receiving. There are some exceptions to this rule; for example serving members of the armed forces may wear their military uniform. Some of the older universities may hold their graduation ceremonies in Latin, whilst member institutions of the University of Wales hold their graduation ceremonies almost entirely in the Welsh language, even though few students understand either of these languages. The Latin section of the ceremony may include a rendition of an anthem, sometimes called the unofficial anthem of all universities, the De Brevitate Vitae, also known as The Gaudeamus. Academic dress or academical dress (also known in the United States as academic regalia) is traditional clothing worn specifically in academic settings. ...
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The Pomp and Circumstance Marches, op. ...
Land of Hope and Glory, also known as Pomp and Circumstance, is an English patriotic song. ...
A Chancellor is the head of a university. ...
A Vice-Chancellor (commonly called the VC) of a university in the United Kingdom, other Commonwealth countries, and some universities in Hong Kong, is the de facto head of the university. ...
Academic dress or academical dress (also known in the United States as academic regalia) is traditional clothing worn specifically in academic settings. ...
The armed forces of a state are its government sponsored defense and fighting forces and organizations. ...
A uniform is a set of standard clothing worn by members of an organisation whilst participating in that organisations activity. ...
Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...
The University of Wales (Prifysgol Cymru in Welsh) is a federal university founded in 1893. ...
Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ...
An anthem is a choral composition to an English religious text sung in church services. ...
De Brevitate Vitae is a song in Latin that is a popular academic commercium song in many European countries. ...
University of Cambridge At the University of Cambridge, however, each graduation is a separate act of the university's governing body, the Regent House, and must be voted on as with any other act. First, an official will propose (in Latin) that the graduates be admitted to the relevant degree; a vote is then taken, although, in practice only, one vote will be cast in favor. Next, the graduates come forward in groups of four and kneel before the Vice-Chancellor, who wears a special graduation cape, and are told in Latin that they are admitted to their degrees. (In practice the head of the college often that of a graduate, is deputized for the Vice-Chancellor.) The graduation is by the Trinitarian Formula, "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" (original Greek εις το ονομα του πατρος και του υιου και του αγίου πνεύματος, eis to onoma tou patros kai tou huiou kai tou hagiou pneumatos), otherwise it may be omitted or replaced for religious or personal reasons. The graduates wear the academic dress that they were entitled to before graduating: for example, most students becoming Bachelors of Arts wear undergraduate gowns. The University of Cambridge (often called Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...
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