Voa education report - School Ends, and So Too Does Our Foreign Student Series

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is the VOA Special English Education Report.

Summer the end of another school year in America. May June are graduation season.

Centuries of tradition the special caps and gowns that students and professors at commencement ceremonies. Top members of the class and guests offer speeches and advice. Finally the time comes what everyone has been waiting for: one by one, names of the students are called.

They to the front and shake hands with school officials. might receive their official diploma that day or maybe few weeks later.

Graduations are always emotional events. in May, at Fort Hays State University in Kansas, graduate named Nola Ochs received special attention. Her major of study was history. Nothing unusual about that. But Ochs is ninety-five years old.

That made the world's oldest graduate for the keepers of the World Records. Until now they have recognized a ninety-year-old graduate from the University of Oklahoma in two thousand .

Nola Ochs' granddaughter graduated with her. One of commencement speakers told the students to take a lesson Nola Ochs and never stop trying.

That is advice on which to end our Foreign Student Series higher education in the United States. We began in with the process of applying to an American college university. We talked about admissions tests, financial aid, online , student exchange programs, programs for disabled students and a more.

All forty-three reports can be found at voaspecialenglishcom.. Many were based on questions from listeners. invite you to continue writing us with your questions the American education system. Our Foreign Student Series may over for now, but we will still try to questions on future reports. Our e-mail address is specialvoanewscom@..

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