We run two grad ceremonies over the year; December, the main one, where most students graduate, and a sort of mop-up June ceremony that's mostly filled with postgrad students who handed in dissertations in February, or undergrads who had supplementary exams (written in January) or needed a summer term course over the December holiday to finish. This year June was much larger because so many students deferred exams to January because of the protests.

My Cherished Institution is a bit insane with grad ceremonies, it's really tricky to run a December grad when exams only finish late November - marks processing in time is a bitch. Also, we are a Very Large University and it's logistically challenging to graduate everyone at all, let alone in a hurry.

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