The certificate of attendance is awarded to students who acquire the required credits ( Carnegie units ) for the standard diploma but fail to pass the Alabama High School Graduation Exam.
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In his opening speech Lawrence criticised the by-laws of the College of Surgeons for preventing all but a few teachers in London, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen from issuing certificates of attendance at preparatory lectures.
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A principal named Atwood argued in his favor, stating to his colleagues that the boy should be given a Certificate of Attendance, given that " . . . one day he'll be making more money than everyone in this room ."
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In 1847 the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh found him guilty of falsifying a student's certificate of attendance ( a not uncommon practice in private schools ) and refused to accept any further certificates from him, effectively banning him from teaching in Scotland.
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I return to the States with a brown-tone, parchment-like sheet of paper, declaring itself a " Certificate of Attendance, " to wit, that " the person named herewith " has completed a program of literary and art study at L'Universite de Paris, la Sorbonne.
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With the exception of those receiving a certificate of completion or a certificate of attendance, the recipients are all equally considered to be high school graduates with the same basic rights, such as the ability to attend any community college or university that chooses to accept them.
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The report charges that employers and post-secondary institutions " all but ignore the diploma, knowing that it ofen serves as little more than a certificate of attendance, " because " what it takes to earn one is disconnected from what it takes for graduates to compete successfully beyond high school ."
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:It is of course true that some institutions will want to milk the value of their name as much as they can, but equally if it really is a top 1 % college then it can make just as much money by hosting " conferences " and the like as it can hosting courses whose reward is a certificate of attendance.
