The University's summer graduation season starts on 4 July with graduation ceremonies at 11.00 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. in the Bute Hall.

Among those graduating at the morning ceremony will be Susan Hanson who will receive the Adam Smith Prize for the best student in Social Sciences.

At the afternoon ceremony the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters will be conferred on Professor Lalage Bown. Professor Bown was Director of the Department of Adult & Continuing Education at the University of Glasgow for 11 years until 1992. Prior to that she worked in Africa for thirty years, pioneering adult education programmes in a number of countries including Nigeria and Zambia where in 1966, she became the first woman Professor of Adult Education in the Commonwealth. There she established a national extramural programme, focusing on special courses for trade unionists, politicians, the police and army officers, stressing the universities' role in public debate.

At the same ceremony the Faculty of Education Prize will be awarded jointly to Nuala Ann Mooney and Laura Frances Harold.

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Media Relations Office (media@gla.ac.uk)

You are welcome to be represented at either ceremony

Morning ceremony: 11.00 a.m. ? Bute Hall

Photo-opportunities East Quad ? approx. 12.15 p.m. meet Press Officer at Media Rendezvous Point.

Afternoon ceremony: 4.00 p.m. ? Bute Hall

Photo-opportunities East Quad ? approx 5.15, meet Press Officer at Media Rendezvous Point

For further information contact the University Press Office on 0141 330 3535 or at

press@gla.ac.uk

First published: 3 July 2002