Everyone knows the images are from American films: students on their graduation gowns to walk around and happily throwing their caps into the air. Starting this year, also in Ghent, the University has ordered the gowns graduating master that day engagement,cap and gown for graduation
"We are this year with the first Master's students who graduate after the Bologna reform and reformed the entire program graduates," says the rector of Ghent, Paul Van Cauwenberge, who took the initiative for the gown proclamations. "That's why we've been thinking about how that time of graduation which could put more in the paint. So we arrived at the idea of gowns from the master. "
One idea that has gradually leaked out among students and pressure the Ghent commented. "All that money wasted on a ridiculous American tradition," the student newspaper quotes Schamper a belch at a student forum.
But the university has not stolen the idea from the Americans, Van Cauwenberge replicates.
"Historically, universities know all that tradition. It is true that in Anglo-Saxon countries have done, but why not reintroduce it to us? "
Student Representative Stijn Baert will eventually feel so bad. "The first reflex you might think indeed that money better be spent on something else. But the students had in recent years criticized the proclamation ceremonies because they had little to much. And finally emphasizes the gown, at a time when the distinction blurs with plenty of colleges, the academic nature of the unief. "
A real tangible reminder of the days of their graduation gown will not be true. "Originally it was our intention to donate gowns to our masters," says Van Cauwenberge. "But that would ultimately expensive failure. Because even though it is much lighter and cheaper models than the professor's gown, eventually they would still cost 20 euros each. What the university more than 100,000 euros would cost. "
Therefore end up buying the 1000 university gowns, about the maximum needed for a proclamation. Students get them on loan, but they have after the ceremony is returned. "But the pictures will of course have something special."
Stijn Baert, who graduates this year itself, will therefore gown hanging around the shoulders. "Although I do hope they have some different sizes. I'm not so big, and it would not be allowed to face this thing around my body swab. "
- De Standaard Online, Tuesday, May 20, 2008
I say Yay! It's great, receive your diploma and flosj your beret on the other hand, we explain? I'm completely down.
I think it has something like you and your fellow students for the last time a feeling of belonging can have on your graduation gown from all around to be able to attract.