News
Register to graduate in absence or defer
The RISISweb Portal has now closed to register to attend graduation.
It is still possible to either defer your graduation until Winter 2012 or register to graduate in absence on your RISISweb Portal.
- You must regitser to defer your graduation to Winter 2012 by Wednesday 13 June.
- If you do not register, you will automatically graduate in absence. You will not receive your certificate until you have confirmed your postal address. You can do this if you log in to your RISISweb Portal.
- If you register to graduate in absence your certificate will be sent to you during the weeks following graduation.
Summer Graduation- Ceremony Moves and Ceremony List
Please follow this link to view the July 2012 Finalised Ceremony List (184KB pdf).
Each year, in order to cope with the unpredictable and complex logistics of graduation, we warn all graduands and staff that we reserve the right to change the time of the degree ceremony to which their subject was initially allocated. Graduation ceremonies are planned on expected student attendance numbers. Whilst every effort is made to avoid ceremony moves, this year since the original schedule was planned we have had a significant increase in those wishing to attend.
In order to allow these students to graduate in person I am afraid we find ourselves having to move students in Law on the following courses:
- PhD; MPhil
- LLM Advanced Legal Studies; European Union Law; International Law and World Order
- LLB Law with Legal Studies in Europe; Legal Studies; Legal Studies (taught in conjunction with Taylors University)
From the 5.00pm ceremony on Thursday 5 July to the 3.45pm ceremony on Thursday 5 July.
All other students will remain at the same time and date and the above ceremony schedule should be considered considered final.
We will be writing individually to the students and staff affected this week.
Summer Graduation - Registration
The extended deadline for students to register to attend is Sunday 13 May 2012. Please note: as the previous deadline to register has passed, students registering now will not be guaranteed two guest tickets (except PhD students).
Summer Graduation
The dates for summer graduation are the 4, 5 and 6 July 2012.
Invitations have now been sent to students expected to graduate in July. Students can register to attend graduation by logging onto their RISISweb Portal only.
Certificates from Winter Graduation 2011
Certificates for students who had registered to graduate in absence have been sent to UK and international addresses.
Certificates for students who did not register will not be mailed until we have confirmation of a postal address in writing from the graduate. Please email your student number and date of birth, along with a postal address to graduation@reading.ac.uk.
Adverse Weather
If you have registered to attend your graduation, but cannot make it due to snow you must email graduation@reading.ac.uk on the day itself to notify us.
If you cannot make it because of adverse weather only and you would like information on attending a future ceremony please let us know. Otherwise students who do not attend on the day will graduate in absence and certificates will be posted to those who have registered in the new year.
Graduation Live
This year, family and friends across the world can watch you graduate live over the internet. All the ceremonies will be streamed live onto the web on Thursday 15 December and Friday 16 December 2011.
http://www.reading.ac.uk/Graduation/news/grad-livefeed.aspx
Please note: The feed will only show live graduation ceremonies, if you wish to see a previous ceremony please contact www.visionsunlimited.co.uk for DVDs.
Extra Tickets
Extras have been allocated for the ceremonies: Thursday 15 December at 14.30 and 16.00, Friday 16 December at 14.30. These can be collected from the Information Desk on the day of Graduation.
There are no extra tickets available for the other ceremonies.
All students attending the ceremonies are required to read the information sent with tickets:
December 2011 Graduation Essential Information
Tickets for December have now been sent to students with a UK address.
Students who have asked to collect tickets or who have not provided a UK address:
- Can collect tickets between 9am-1pm and 2pm-4pm Monday-Friday from the Graduation office until Friday 2 December.
- Otherwise they will be available from 9am on the day of the ceremony.
Please note if collecting tickets on the day of Graduation you should check and print your confirmation page. This can be found on your RISISweb portal.
Ceremony Moves
Each year, in order to cope with the unpredictable and complex logistics of graduation, we warn all graduands and staff that we reserve the right to change the time of the degree ceremony to which their subject was initially allocated. Graduation ceremonies are planned on expected student attendance numbers. Whilst every effort if made to avoid ceremony moves, this year since the original schedule was planned we have had a significant increase in those wishing to attend.
In order to allow these students to graduate in person I am afraid we find ourselves having to move students:
In Real Estate and Planning from:
the 2.30pm ceremony on Friday 16 December to the 12.00noon ceremony on Friday 16 December.
In the Institute of Education on the following Courses:
- PhD
- MA (and PG Dip where appropriate) Education (English Language Teaching); Education (Generic Programme); Education (Inclusive Education); Education (Music Education); English and Language in Education; Inclusive Education; Instrumental Teaching; Music Education; Music Teaching in Professional Practice; Teaching and Learning
- MSc (and PG Dip where appropriate) Managing School Improvement
- PG Cert Academic Practice; SENCO
From the 4pm ceremony on Friday 16 December to the 14.30 ceremony on Friday 16 December.
All other students will remain at the same time and date and the attached ceremony schedule considered final.
We will be writing individually to the students and staff affected this Friday 4 November.
Summer 2012 dates
Graduation will be held on 4,5,6 July 2012. Students eligible to graduate will be contacted in mid-March with an invitation
The Graduation Office is now on Twitter! Follow us @unirdg_grad for all the latest information on your Graduation!
Graduation is now over and the live feed is no longer available. Thanks to everyone who watched and tweeted! You can read all the tweets from the days here!