HUNDREDS of graduates from across the world will today collect their degrees at the first of Glyndwr University’s 2011 awards ceremonies.
Six events are being held this week in the university’s William Aston Hall in Wrexham.
Creative industries, media and performance, humanities and sport and exercise sciences students will receive degrees this morning.
Health and medical sciences, nursing and occupational therapy and psychology will follow with theirs this afternoon.
Vice-chancellor Professor Michael Scott said: “Graduation is always a very special day for the university, its students and their family and friends, and this year will be no different.
“Studying successfully at higher education is a tremendous achievement and I’d like to congratulate everyone who is graduating this year.”
Two more ceremonies will be held tomorrow and Friday for other subjects.
More than 20 prizes will also be presented throughout the week to students across all subject areas for outstanding achievement.
This year will see the first cohort of graduates to have studied entirely as Glyndwr University students, following the creation of the university in 2008.
Six honorary fellowships will be also awarded at Glyndwr University this week.
Iceland Foods founder and chief executive officer Malcolm Walker is to become an honorary fellow for his services to business.
He set up Iceland in 1970 with £30 capital and a single shop in Oswestry selling loose frozen food. By 2000 it was a national chain with more than 22,000 employees and 700 shops.
Mr Walker left the company in 2001 but returned in 2005 and transformed its performance.
Other honorary fellows will include trophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who helped Nobel Prize winner Antony Hewish to discover the first radio pulsars as a postgraduate student at Cambridge.
Wales’ former top civil servant Sir Jon Shortridge, a key figure in securing devolved government, will also collect an award.
John Drakakis, a retired professor of English, New York academic Prof Leonard Goldstein and former property executive Bob Hill complete the list of 2011 honorary fellows.
Prof Scott said: “As always, we are proud to be able to recognise the contribution of outstanding individuals for their work in all sorts of areas.
“They are all extremely worthy awardees.”