It has always been tradition for Midwifery students to have their graduation ceremony held at the luxurious St Albans Abbey, this has been a tradition for more than 20 years years and is a big part of undertaking a degree at the University of Hertfordshire for this fact. Unfortunately this year the our ceremony is due to be held in the Western Auditorium at the De Havilland Campus. To those who don't know this is a lecture hall within the university, nothing special and in no way a comparison to the amazing Abbey. We are starting a petition in order to get this changed as we believe we deserve what every other student has encountered. This will be the proudest day for many of us and we wish to celebrate with a bit of style and follow tradition. please sign and support us, we are not the only students/health profession that this has happened to this year. Many other students will graduate at this campus. Thank you
The university is ignoring our messages so we need to escalate our pressure today. Email the registrar office and demand they explain why our graduation tradition was cut without consultation. Post the petition link on Facebook and tag the university official account so they cannot pretend they do not see our frustration.
Reached 100 supporters
March 1, 2015
February 28, 2015
We are approaching one hundred signatures and need to push harder to get the university to notice. Post this link on your Facebook page right now and text three friends who are also impacted by this change. Keep the pressure on so we can force a conversation about our graduation location.
680 Comments
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Val Underwood
11 years ago
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Absolutely disgraceful what the heck!!! are they thinking when the NHS are crying out for nurses. They diserve the Abbey when they have put far more work into their degree. What other students have to do their accedemic work whilst on placement in the hospitals.
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sarah monk
11 years ago
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Gutted is an understatement..........!!!
We want the Abbey!!!! Cohort 2012 within all professions want to stand LOUD and PROUD to say were graduates of hertfordshire from the Abbey!!! Not de hav!! Dont quite ring the same!!!
Abbey Abbey Abbey Abbey Abbey Abbey
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Rosie Irish
11 years ago
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If the people who make these decisions had any idea as to the amount of work and effort it has taken to get to University, let alone graduate, they might realize that what they are suggesting is an utter insult. Please do the right thing and hold their ceremony at St. Albans Abbey.
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Anita Pye
11 years ago
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Just found out this is the case for social work students too.. where does the money from our ridiculosly high tuition fees go? Very dissapointed with the hertfordshire experience from the start, nothing like my undergrad.
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Keleigh Hamilton
11 years ago
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We study for three long years, struggle placements, families, personal commitments, assignments and exams to not even get to celebrate this at the Abbey, instead you just insult us with the best you can do being de havilland campus!
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Lauren Potter
11 years ago
Featured
We deserve to graduate in the same location as other graduates, it is very unfair not to facilitate our cohort just because we graduate later, this is not something in our control. I have worked so hard these past years and I want to take my family somewhere to be proud of.
It has always been tradition for Midwifery students to have their graduation ceremony held at the luxurious St Albans Abbey, this has been a tradition for more than 20 years years and is a big part of undertaking a degree at the University of Hertfordshire for this fact. Unfortunately this year the our ceremony is due to be held in the Western Auditorium at the De Havilland Campus. To those who don't know this is a lecture hall within the university, nothing special and in no way a comparison to the amazing Abbey. We are starting a petition in order to get this changed as we believe we deserve what every other student has encountered. This will be the proudest day for many of us and we wish to celebrate with a bit of style and follow tradition. please sign and support us, we are not the only students/health profession that this has happened to this year. Many other students will graduate at this campus. Thank you
The university is ignoring our messages so we need to escalate our pressure today. Email the registrar office and demand they explain why our graduation tradition was cut without consultation. Post the petition link on Facebook and tag the university official account so they cannot pretend they do not see our frustration.
Reached 100 supporters
March 1, 2015
February 28, 2015
We are approaching one hundred signatures and need to push harder to get the university to notice. Post this link on your Facebook page right now and text three friends who are also impacted by this change. Keep the pressure on so we can force a conversation about our graduation location.
680 Comments
V
Val Underwood
11 years ago
Featured
Absolutely disgraceful what the heck!!! are they thinking when the NHS are crying out for nurses. They diserve the Abbey when they have put far more work into their degree. What other students have to do their accedemic work whilst on placement in the hospitals.
S
sarah monk
11 years ago
Featured
Gutted is an understatement..........!!!
We want the Abbey!!!! Cohort 2012 within all professions want to stand LOUD and PROUD to say were graduates of hertfordshire from the Abbey!!! Not de hav!! Dont quite ring the same!!!
Abbey Abbey Abbey Abbey Abbey Abbey
R
Rosie Irish
11 years ago
Featured
If the people who make these decisions had any idea as to the amount of work and effort it has taken to get to University, let alone graduate, they might realize that what they are suggesting is an utter insult. Please do the right thing and hold their ceremony at St. Albans Abbey.
A
Anita Pye
11 years ago
Featured
Just found out this is the case for social work students too.. where does the money from our ridiculosly high tuition fees go? Very dissapointed with the hertfordshire experience from the start, nothing like my undergrad.
K
Keleigh Hamilton
11 years ago
Featured
We study for three long years, struggle placements, families, personal commitments, assignments and exams to not even get to celebrate this at the Abbey, instead you just insult us with the best you can do being de havilland campus!
L
Lauren Potter
11 years ago
Featured
We deserve to graduate in the same location as other graduates, it is very unfair not to facilitate our cohort just because we graduate later, this is not something in our control. I have worked so hard these past years and I want to take my family somewhere to be proud of.
Absolutely disgraceful what the heck!!! are they thinking when the NHS are crying out for nurses. They diserve the Abbey when they have put far more work into their degree. What other students have to do their accedemic work whilst on placement in the hospitals.