If you're attending any Open University ceremonies in 2015, please join our Facebook degree ceremony events and share your photos of the day with other graduates. https://www.facebook.com/theopenuniversity The Open University Degree Ceremonies 2015 Millennium Centre Friday 12 June 14:30 Programme: (00:58) Welcome Speech (06:03) Presentation of higher degrees (17:40) Honorary Degree – Andrew Green (33:03) Presentation of undergraduate degrees – BA, BEng, Law (49:00) Honorary Degree – John McGrath (59:27) Presentation of undergraduate degrees - BSc, Foundation & PGCE (1:17:58) Closing Speech Honorary graduates: Andrew Green (Exceptional contribution to education and culture) Andrew is a librarian and educationalist. He went to school in Wakefield and studied Classics at the University of Cambridge. From 1975 to 1998 he worked in university libraries in Aberystwyth, Cardiff, Sheffield and Swansea. Until 2013 he was Librarian of the National Library of Wales. In this time the library attracted new audiences, established a visitor centre and the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales, and became a leader in the use of digital technologies. Andrew has served on many bodies, including the Council of Aberystwyth University, the Wales Advisory Committee of the British Council, Research Libraries UK, the Legal Deposit Libraries Committee, and independent committees for the Welsh Government. A Welsh speaker, he chairs the board of the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and is the author of In the Chair: How to Guide Groups and Manage Meetings. He is a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. John McGrath (Services to the Arts and Sciences) John is the founding Artistic Director of National Theatre Wales, where he has worked with a wide range of artists and partner companies to develop an award-winning mix of work in theatres and site-specific locations across the country. Productions he has directed include A Good Night Out in the Valleys, in five Valleys Miners’ Institutes; The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, with every show live-streamed and hyperlinked online across Wales and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; In Water I’m Weightless, at the Wales Millennium Centre and London’s South Bank Centre; and The Opportunity of Efficiency for the New National Theatre, Tokyo. From 1999 to 2008 he was Artistic Director of Contact, Manchester. He has published a book, Loving Big Brother, about art in the surveillance age and in 2005 was awarded the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) Cultural Leadership Award. Free learning from The Open University http://open.edu/openlearn

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