19 April 1994 Record Number to Graduate from Lincoln University

A record 750 students will graduate with degrees or diplomas at Lincoln University's capping ceremony on Friday (22 April), a figure which is up 110 on last year.

One hundred and forty of the degrees and diplomas will be awarded "in absentia".

Commerce and Commerce and Management provide the largest single category of degrees and diplomas - around 50 percent - while agriculture and horticulture make up 18 percent of those graduating.

Seventeen doctorates will be awarded plus two honorary doctorates.

In all over 600 degrees will be presented with the balance of awards being undergraduate and postgraduate diplomas.

The capping, to be held in Christchurch Town Hall, will be the first city graduation for the rural-based university, no campus venue now being sufficiently large for such an occasion.

It will also be the first graduation ceremony presided over by Lincoln's new Chancellor, Mr Malcolm Cameron of Wellington.

Ian Collins, Journalist, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand.