Graduation
Graduation day is the culmination of all the time and work that you have put into gaining your qualification. It gives you a great chance to celebrate all that you have achieved. It is a brilliant way to highlight the end of this amazing chapter in your life. Take this moment to appreciate your achievement and recognise its importance.
Graduation 2023
The date for Graduation 2023 is Friday 22nd September at the Borders Events Centre in Kelso. For further details, please contact graduation@borderscollege.ac.uk
Graduation 2022 Livestream
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Graduation 2022
The much-anticipated Borders College Graduation 2022 Ceremony took place at the Borders Events Centre in Kelso, allowing our students to celebrate the successful completion of their studies.
Graduation 2021
Having worked incredibly hard to complete their courses, it was time to recognise and celebrate the many achievements and successes of our students over the last two years.
Graduation Information Booklet 2022
For ceremony to be held on Friday 2 December 2022. Adobe pdf file.
Please be advised that filming and/or photography will be taking place during Graduation. If you do not wish to appear in any images captured, please tell us so that we can take appropriate steps to ensure you are not included.
The photographs/film will be used by Borders College for editorial, marketing and public relations both in print and online.
If you have any concerns about this please email: marketing@borderscollege.ac.uk.
For information regarding our Graduation please contact enquiries@borderscollege.ac.uk or telephone 01896 66 26 00.
Doors to Graduation Hall will open two hours before the ceremony is due to begin, at which time graduates and their guests may enter to take their seats. Everyone must be seated 15 minutes before the ceremony begins. There will be a team of marshals on duty to assist you and to control the flow of graduates and guests into the Graduation Hall. Please follow these arrangements to ensure that congestion is kept to a minimum.
The ceremony will begin with the academic procession of the College’s senior staff, during which the graduates and guests are asked to stand.
As graduates will return to the same seats following their presentation on stage, personal possessions and programmes etc. may be left on the chair.
At the end of the ceremony, graduates will process to the reception area, following the stage party. Guests are asked to remain in the Hall until all graduates have processed. A team of marshalls will be ready to guide you.
Contact
If you still require further information, please contact Borders College on 01896 66 26 00.
The main feature of the crest is a shield, representing history, establishment and heritage. The shield is split into four sections, alluding to the shires of the region. The ‘B’ and ‘C’ sections are tonally representative of the College’s corporate colours. The green section represents the predominant colour of the Borders landscape. The Saltire element stresses that the region is proudly Scottish. The shield is surmounted by a torch, the traditional symbol of learning and endeavour. Below the crest is a rope in the form of the shires bound together with the gold thread of learning.
2022 – Jodie Millar
2021 – Virginia Grant
2020 - Ross Dickinson
2019 – Nick Bannerman
2018 – Doddie Weir OBE
2017 – David Stevenson CBE
2016 – Wilma Gunn MBE
2015 – Rosamund de la Hey
2014 – Catherine Maxwell Stuart
2013 – Chris Paterson MBE
2012 – Andrew Grant
2011 – John Collins
2010 – John Alistair Buchan
2009 – Gregor Townsend
2008 – David A G Kilshaw OBE
2007 – Ian Stark OBE
2006 – Tony Taylor OBE
2005 – Bob Kay CBE
2004 – Jill Douglas
2003 – Andrew L Tulley MBE JP
2002 – Sir David Steel
2001 – Sir Archy Kirkwood
2000 – Barbara Baker
1999 – John Cleland
1998 – Keith Geddes CBE
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