There will be no moment in the spotlight, on stage posing with a certificate in front of family and friends, or the mass applause of their peers. For students graduating this year from polytechnics and the Institutes of Technical Education (ITE), graduation ceremonies have been cancelled.
Unlike their seniors, some 26,000 polytechnic students and 6,500 students from ITEs will graduate next month and in July without the usual fanfare.
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