I got a first-class diploma.
A high-class diploma from a high-class university was for many years the best investment loving parents could make into their children's future.
She completed her five-year course in two years, graduating with a first-class honours diploma in Bharatanatyam in 1957.
This gave the young Henri the opportunity to register as a student for the second-class pharmacy diploma, which did not need, at the time, the GCE.
But for working-class and middle-class Indians a diploma from IIT, which charges just $600 a year tuition (up from $10 in 1990), is a passage to affluence, in India or abroad.
But schools here did track students, whether or not they called it tracking, dividing them with honors classes, separate diplomas, vocational training.
On a sunny morning last May, a member of Harvard's graduating class received her diploma and prepared to depart from campus as quietly as she had arrived.
She sees a therapist weekly, sings in the choir at St . Philips Episcopal Churchin Harlem and is enrolled in a high school equivalency diploma class at City College.
A month into the equivalency-diploma class, he was still enthusiastic.
Diploma classes are often away from the school or college at which students have enrolled.
It was not even exclusively these famous middle class citizens with diplomas to spare, who felt betrayed by Ben Ali.
