Graduation

We are delighted to announce that the following organisations are sponsoring the 2025 Graduation.

• Borders Competitions
   A Scottish Borders–based online raffle platform, founded in 2023, has quickly built a reputation for giving back. Alongside offering life-changing prizes, the company reinvests profits into charities and community initiatives, underlining its strong sense of local responsibility. 
  
  
• Borders Buses
  Operates modern and reliable services across the Borders, Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian, Cumbria, and Northumberland. The company plays a vital role in connecting communities and has demonstrated its ongoing support for regional growth and opportunity.
  
  
• Morrison Construction
  One of Scotland’s leading construction firms, brings decades of expertise to essential infrastructure projects such as schools, bridges, and flood defences. As part of Galliford Try, the company actively promotes sustainability and innovation, while remaining rooted in community values.
  
  
• Eildon Housing
  A charitable housing association based in the Borders since 1973 is dedicated to supporting and strengthening our communities. Their mission goes beyond bricks and mortar and the high-quality, sustainable, affordable homes they offer. They deliver exceptional care and support to older people and individuals with learning disabilities. Their values – caring, committed, connected, and creative – are at the heart of everything they do.
  
  

• Finlaysons Contracts
  Are a local Scottish Borders based construction company with over 80 years’ experience in specialising in the delivery of Multi Trade Contract projects. The company undertakes a range of projects, from repairs and property maintenance to refurbishments and new builds, with its in-house specialist trade sectors covering Masonry, Joinery, Roofing & Decorator, delivering public and private sector projects primarily across the South of Scotland Borders region.

  Finlayson Contracts Ltd emphasises quality, safety, and sustainability in building solutions for community & development projects.
  
  

• Muirhall Energy
  Muirhall Energy, an independent renewable energy developer, has delivered over 150 MW of onshore wind projects and continues to expand its 3 GW clean energy pipeline. 
  Known for its strong community focus, the company goes beyond industry standards by creating shared ownership opportunities and guaranteeing community funding, sharing over £4.6million to date.
  
   
• St Boswells Fuels LTD
  St Boswells Fuels ltd is a feedstock company that provides feed material to Anaerobic digestion plants and farms around Scotland and North East England. They specialise in selling co-products to Anaerobic digestion plants so they can feed the material to create methane gas for the national grid.

Please be advised that filming and/or photography will be taking place during Graduation. If you do not wish to appear in any images captured, please tell us so that we can take appropriate steps to ensure you are not included.

The photographs/film will be used by Borders College for editorial, marketing and public relations both in print and online.

If you have any concerns about this please email: marketing@borderscollege.ac.uk.

For information regarding our Graduation please contact enquiries@borderscollege.ac.uk or telephone 01896 66 26 00.

Doors to Graduation Hall will open two hours before the ceremony is due to begin, at which time graduates and their guests may enter to take their seats. Everyone must be seated 15 minutes before the ceremony begins. There will be a team of marshals on duty to assist you and to control the flow of graduates and guests into the Graduation Hall. Please follow these arrangements to ensure that congestion is kept to a minimum.

The ceremony will begin with the academic procession of the College’s senior staff, during which the graduates and guests are asked to stand.

As graduates will return to the same seats following their presentation on stage, personal possessions and programmes etc. may be left on the chair.

At the end of the ceremony, graduates will process to the reception area, following the stage party. Guests are asked to remain in the Hall until all graduates have processed. A team of marshalls will be ready to guide you.
 

Contact
If you still require further information, please contact Borders College on 01896 66 26 00.

The main feature of the crest is a shield, representing history, establishment and heritage. The shield is split into four sections, alluding to the shires of the region. The ‘B’ and ‘C’ sections are tonally representative of the College’s corporate colours. The green section represents the predominant colour of the Borders landscape. The Saltire element stresses that the region is proudly Scottish. The shield is surmounted by a torch, the traditional symbol of learning and endeavour. Below the crest is a rope in the form of the shires bound together with the gold thread of learning.

2024 – Katie Scott

2023 – Chris Ball

2022 – Jodie Millar

2021 – Virginia Grant

2020 - Ross Dickinson

2019 – Nick Bannerman

2018 – Doddie Weir OBE

2017 – David Stevenson CBE

2016 – Wilma Gunn MBE

2015 – Rosamund de la Hey

2014 – Catherine Maxwell Stuart

2013 – Chris Paterson MBE

2012 – Andrew Grant

2011 – John Collins

2010 – John Alistair Buchan

2009 – Gregor Townsend

2008 – David A G Kilshaw OBE

2007 – Ian Stark OBE

2006 – Tony Taylor OBE

2005 – Bob Kay CBE

2004 – Jill Douglas

2003 – Andrew L Tulley MBE JP

2002 – Sir David Steel

2001 – Sir Archy Kirkwood

2000 – Barbara Baker

1999 – John Cleland

1998 – Keith Geddes CBE