Adult Graduation Ceremony

CVQO Graduation Ceremony

The Graduation Ceremony is one of the most historic and prestigious occasions in our annual events calendar, providing occasion to formally recognise the achievements of adult instructors within the cadet forces. 

This section contains everything you need to know about this year’s venue and the events timetable. Instructors who have completed the CVQO Senior Awards will receive a formal invitation with an RSVP. Graduates are encouraged to order an academic robe to wear on the day for pictorial keepsake. Photographs are taken on the day by our in house photographer and Ede & Ravenscroft, both will be made available to Graduates to remember this auspicious occasion.

Admiral the Lord West of Spithead GCB DSC DUniv, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of CVQO has agreed to preside over the ceremony and present Graduates with their City & Guilds Certificates. Each year a representative from City & Guilds attends as an honoured guest to present this year’s winners of Most Outstanding Licentiateship, Graduateship and Membership Awards and deliver a Keynote speech. CVQO is delighted to announce Dr R Evans BSc (Hons), Med, PGCE, DMS, MILM, FInst P, C Phy, FCGI will be joining us for the third time as a representative of City & Guilds. Additionally, for the first time this year CVQO has been honoured with three Awards presented by Professor R P Clark OBE, Master of the Company of Educators to acknowledge CVQO’s Most Outstanding Achievers of the ILM Level 3 Award in First Line Management.

We hope that your graduation ceremony will be a special occasion that you will be able to look back on with fondness in years to come.

	Winner of the Most Outstanding Work for Licentiateship  WO Marie Watson, HQ Durham and Northumberland Wing ATC The Licentiateship has been very much a personal journey of achievement for WO Watson.  Marie never believed that she would accomplish the Award and was given a great deal of encouragement from her colleagues to believe in herself. The result was an exceptionally honest and well written Report.
	Winner of the Most Outstanding Work for Graduateship Lt Col Jeffrey Hull, South West London ACF Maj Hull’s Report was exceptional because of the way in which he linked his civilian career to his work with the ACF and the way in which he included a wide ranging number of specific examples the demonstrated the transferability of military and civilian skills.
	Winner of the Most Outstanding Work for Membership Major Tom Cornmell, Greater Manchester ACF Maj Cornmell wrote with enormous credibility, honesty and depth about the formation of a Pipes and Drums Detachment, offering a Thesis that could be used as a model for the formation of a Band Detachment elsewhere within the Cadet Force.

Lt (SCC) Lorretta Painter	CPO (SCC) Carl Williamson
SCTC Excellent	HQ Staff Officer SCC

Adult Graduation Roll of Honour 2009