I acknowledge the great value students and staff place upon graduation ceremonies.
My employer (Bishop Grosseteste University) is even one of the few universities to also offer a matriculation ceremony in the local cathedral.
I understand how the awarding of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, as well as further professional qualifications, leading to all manner of post-nominal letters, is a (the most?) cherished aspect of one’s time at university.
But I wonder whether graduations, and the awards they bestow, should exist at all. According to the late professor of history and religion, James P. Carse (1932 – 2020), there are two types of game: finite and infinite.
