2014 KENYA SCIENCE CAMPUS NURSERY PRE-SCHOOL GRADUATION

CEREMONY

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Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the ceremony that is sometimes associated, where students become graduates. Before the graduation, candidates are referred to as graduands. The date of graduation is often called graduation day.

The graduation itself is also called commencement, convocation or invocation, though in some cases inaccurately. In the United States and Canada, the term is additionally increasingly being used to refer to the advancement from pree-unit,

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Primary or secondary school level. When ceremonies are associated, they usually include a procession of the academic staff and candidates. At the college and university level the faculty will usually wear academic dress at the formal ceremonies, as will the trustees and degree candidates.

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"Graduation" at the college and university level occurs when the presiding officer confers degrees upon candidates, either individually or en masse, even if graduates physically receive their diploma later at a smaller college ordepartmental ceremony. After degree completion, graduates can be referred to by their graduating year.

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The procedures and traditions surrounding academic graduation ceremonies differ around the world. Whereas in most countries a graduation usually only occurs at university level, but with Kenya Science Campus Nursery School, they do it every year.

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While graduates throw their caps in their air-knowing that they will soon come down-we should reflect on how we can help them during the next phase of their lives.

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