Academic graduation by country
The speeches are written vertically from top to bottom, right to left on a fan folded piece of paper.
At junior high school an underclassmen may give a speech thanking the graduating students for things like being good senpai.
The next business day after the ceremony 1st and 2nd year students continue classes until spring break officially starts.
The same went for kindergarten “graduates” except that girls usually wore identical dresses in a style and color agreed upon by the parents.
The Department of Education (DepEd) also recently called for austerity measures, prohibiting extravagant spending and requiring students to wear only their school uniforms under their togas.
After the keynote address, the school principal, or chancellor in the case of universities, presents the graduates to the representative of the appropriate government institution by having them stand up.
After awarding diplomas, the class valedictorian gives the valedictory address and leads the school pledge of loyalty.
Other songs that Filipino students have chosen to sing during their graduation rites are “Farewell” by Raymond Lauchengco, “The Journey” by Lea Salonga, and “High School Life” by Sharon Cuneta.
At the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS), the graduation ceremonies are formal affairs, which include an academic procession by the faculty staff.
The WITS choir is always present, and as a fun twist once the academic procession has left the hall, the song "I Got You (I Feel Good)" by James Brown is played over the loudspeakers.
The students gather with their parents and well wishers, and rally on roads celebrating the high school graduation ceremony.
They will normally leave secondary school or a sixth form college (if applicable) with specific qualifications, such as General Certificate of Education GCSEs and A-levels, Scottish Qualification Authority Standard Grades and Higher national courses or, less frequently, other certificates such as the International Baccalaureate.
When their names are called, the graduates walk across the stage to shake hands with a senior official, often the university's Chancellor or the vice-chancellor.
This may be followed by the conferring of an honorary doctorate to a highly accomplished guest where a citation is usually read by a member of staff of the relevant faculty/school/department.
Member institutions of the University of Wales hold their graduation ceremonies almost entirely in the Welsh language.
After being vested the power to award its own degrees from the University of London in 2006,[4] graduates since 2008 wear an academic dress that does not feature a hat, designed by Dame Vivienne Westwood.
The graduation is similar to many others, commencing with an academic procession (juniores priores/in reverse order of seniority) of the masters, Principal, the maces, and Chancellor, during which the graduands and their guests sing The Gaudeamus.
After this graduands are called forward individually by the Dean of the Faculty within which they are a member (Arts, Divinity, Medicine, and Science).
The graduand comes to the graduation desk before the Chancellor (or in his absence, the Principal, acting in the capacity of Vice-Chancellor), proffering the hood of the degree that they are about to receive to the Bedellus, and kneels.
The Chancellor then says: ("I promote you to the Degree of Master of Arts/Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Divinity/ Bachelor of Medical Science, as a symbol of which I place this cap upon you.")
This happens in absentia at a joint meeting of the University's Council and Senate ("congregation") on an occasion prior to and entirely separate from the ceremony - it is not unusual for Open University graduates to attend their degree ceremony some months (or even years) after they have formally graduated.
The University's ceremonies – or "Presentations of Graduates" – occur Britain and Ireland throughout the year, usually in two batches; March to June, then September to November.
[10] In some countries like Argentina and Uruguay, enthusiasm preveals over moderation with graduation parties, taking part an authentic carnival as part of the celebration that's mostly spontaneous, anarchic, and barely planned on the middle of the streets: hundreds of graduates, familiars and friends gather on open place, even the proximity of the study center, carrying alcoholic drinks, eggs, flour and other messy food and pelt it all over the graduates, where party is public and open to excesses that carry the complaints of al sorts of commerce, neighbours and authorities in the zone due to the concentration of public disorder and filth that lasts until the aftermath and overwhelms the municipal services.
At large institutions the great number of family members and guests that each graduating student wishes to attend may exceed the capacity of organizers to accommodate.
Most American institutions reserve this to advanced degrees though technically all graduates are entitled to wear a hood of the appropriate scheme and size.
An academic hood is a symbolic garment, which is worn draped around the neck and over the shoulders, displayed down the back with the lining exposed.
Though there is only one commencement, individual colleges and schools of Columbia often invite a speaker at separate graduation ceremonies held earlier or on another day, however.
The parents' and students' decision to hold their own graduation ceremony was cheered by many local businesses, and received mixed views, mostly through later letters to the editor of the Columbus Dispatch and other newspapers in the area.
At the high school level, this allows academic administrators to withhold diplomas from students who are unruly during the ceremony, or whose friends and family disrupt the proceedings.
[16] At the college level, this allows students who need an additional quarter or semester to satisfy their academic requirements to nevertheless participate in the official ceremony with their cohort before receiving their degree.
