ESOL Graduation 2025: Celebrating Our Students
Last week Dundee and Angus College celebrated the incredible achievements of this year’s ESOL (English Speakers of Other Languages) students at two special graduation ceremonies held at our Arbroath and Gardyne campuses.
Filled with emotion, pride and joy, the event brought together over 250 students from more than 25 different countries, each with their own journey.
It was a celebration of the students’ resilience, determination and dedication, which not only recognised the students’ completion of the course, but also their journey, as each class group tutor shared fun and memorable anecdotes from their year together.
The ceremony also featured moving speeches from student representatives Olena and Olesia, who spoke on behalf of their peers: “Every lesson was one step closer to something bigger – a new life. Thank you for believing in us when others didn’t - even when we didn’t believe in ourselves.”
As they look ahead, many students will continue their learning journey through higher-level ESOL courses, while others will transition into full-time study in other college programmes or take the next step into employment.
We are so proud of everything this year’s cohort has achieved, and we can’t wait to see what the future holds for them.
