Why should African graduates be honoured with a Latin song when the continent has plenty of its own music and ways of celebrating? Direct Relief/Flickr If you have attended a university graduation ...

This is Commemoration Day at Glasgow University and Professor Sir Kenneth Calman, the university’s Chancellor, will be presiding over an honorary graduation ceremony at which the international student ...

April and May are graduation seasons across Namibian universities. The familiar rhythms of academic ceremony echoes through halls and auditoriums. Gowns are worn, degrees are conferred, and families ...

Presents quotations from American pundits' speeches during commencement exercises in the United States. Anecdote told by Garrison Keillor in Gettysburg College in 1987; How actress Jodie Foster summed ...

In a move befitting a Tiriti-led institution, Massey University will break with tradition at all graduation ceremonies this year, replacing the ancient latin anthem Gaudeamus Igitur" ("So Let Us ...

OPINIONS differ as to the merits of the late novel, Student Life at Harvard; but probably no one will dispute that the delineation given in one place of Sam Wentworth is applicable to almost every ...

‘Gaudeamus Igitur’ – “therefore let us rejoice”– is rooted in Latin as the language of scholarship at institutions and not designed with African realities in mind. There is nothing inherently wrong ...

If you have attended a university graduation ceremony, or even just watched one in a movie, you will recognise Gaudeamus igitur. This Latin song has become the default graduation march around the ...

Each spring, the pundits and poohbahs of America sharpen their skills on whatmay be the country's largest captive audience--the thousands of young men and women graduating from colleges and ...