About 130 people wore gowns, hoods and mortar boards as they marched from Red Square to the Holy Trinity Events Centre for the University of Waikato graduation ceremony in Tauranga on Friday.
Students graduated with a range of degrees, including communications, science and commerce.

Maggie McIntosh-Jones with children Rosa and Jeremy.

Tauranga MP Simon Bridges was the guest speaker at the ceremony. Simon is well educated himself with an undergraduate degree from the University of Auckland and a post-grad law degree from Oxford University.