Town meets gown
Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:53:00 BST
University Awards Ceremonies underway
FOR thousands of students and their families it is one of the proudest weeks of their life.
Commencing today, Monday 15 July, some 4,500 students will take part in the University of Huddersfield’s graduation ceremonies.
This year’s July ceremonies will run for the longest period ever of seven days, culminating on Tuesday 23 July – there will be no ceremonies over weekend.
One of the highlights – on Monday (15th) – will be the colourful procession of students and staff, including many of the honorary award recipients and headed by the Skelmanthorpe Brass Band.
The procession will wind its way through the town. Despite the warm temperatures, graduates and staff, family and friends enjoyed the spectacular the procession wound its ways around the streets of Huddersfield town centre before heading to the ceremony in the University’s St Paul’s Hall
Students who have achieved Bachelor and Masters degrees, plus other qualifications and Doctorates in a huge range of subject areas, will wear academic robes and headgear as they attend the sequence of ceremonies.
The University will also welcome a roster of eminent people who will receive Honorary Doctorates of the University at the ceremonies.
The Honourable Fatou Lamin Faye, an alumnus of the University of Huddersfield who has risen to be an education minister in her native Gambia.
Professor Colin Carlile is a leading experimental physicist currently playing a central role in the development of the major new research facility – the European Spallation Source (ESS) at Lund in Sweden.
Kavita Oberoi is a graduate of the University of Huddersfield and she is now established as one of Britain’s leading entrepreneurs. Her motivational skills have led to her making several TV appearances.
Ty Unwin studied music at the University of Huddersfield and, after graduating, his career led him to become one of the UK’s top composers of film and TV music.
Duncan Druce is a composer and violinist who has lived in the Holme Valley near Huddersfield for 30 years. In the 1960s he came to prominence as a performer of contemporary music and as a pioneer in the performance of early music. In addition to his highly varied output of compositions, he has also achieved considerable success for his reconstructions of incomplete or lost music by composers such as Mozart, Bach and Beethoven.
