User blog comment:Gohan3256/Graduation/@comment-53539-20121214105000

In the UK there is no such thing unless you pass a university course from my experience.

And my last day at highschool as a shocker, we were all gathered into the assembly hall and simple told that the staff had discussed it for a a few hours and came to the conclusion that we can just go home today and call it quits. It was like... "Wow... thats it?" Apart from exams, and the certificate collection day, which was for many of us the last time we saw it each other, nothing else was much to say about it. That collection service I guess counts as a gradulation day for us, but it was just a Quick "here you are" take them, since we had to collect them in person.

There was the annual "burning of the school uniform" going on nearby, but I never took part in that.... Erm... Yeah its a long story... ^_^'

My university graduation was very formal and proper with cloak and hat and everything... 4 hours sat on a hard seat, I gradulated a year after the others because I had one unit to retake (which took only 8 weeks one day a week to complete). Other then that,I can't really say much apart from my father treated me as a child for that day and I was unable to do a thing unless he let me. Apart from collect the hat thingy when he wasn't looking, my nan was serverly disappointed. So yeah... I was totally embarressed on my graduation day because of my dad. I wish I could have avoided inviting him, but I had no say in the matter as I didn't have the money to be there on that day otherwise to collect my degree certificate. =_=

As for college, the stage between highschool and uni, there was nothing at all, certificates in my case were collected and that was it. :-/