University Graduation And Keynote Speakers

After a number of years studying at university, when you attend your graduation ceremony both the graduates and their parents will be full of pride. Working towards a degree will bring you the chance to have a successful career, brighter job prospects and a life changing time away from home. The keynote speakers that are chosen to talk at the event should thus be chosen to reflect this achievement.

Whilst I fully support those people who decide not to go to university, choosing a keynote speaker who has not experienced a university life is sheer foolishness on the part of graduation organisers. Without knowing what it is like to be at university, keynote speakers cannot relate to their audience because life at university is completely different to life when you choose to go into a job straight from leaving school.

You become a more independent person faster when you go to university. You are faced with situation where you might be forced to live with people you do not get along with, you have to make new sets of friends and you have to be financially organised to be able to budget your loan or get a part time job to help with living costs. All of these things can only be learnt whilst at university.

When working straight out of school you often live with your parents for a few months or even years until you are earning enough to pay for rent, you choose your flatmates when you do move, and so long as you are earning a big enough wage, you do not have the financial worries of students at university. Because unlike the many preconceptions about university students, the majority do not have financial help from their parents, they do it by themselves.

And so when the academic department at university are looking for through keynote speakers for their ceremony, the first thing that should be checked off the list is that they hold a university degree. Otherwise there is no way that their speech will resonate with their audience.