Absolutely appauled at the changes to graduation dates. It's a celebration for making it out of university alive and should be celebrated shortly after finishing. Not the following year. Not only have I arranged for family members to travel overseas for my graduation but I will now have to apply for time off work from my new graduate job. Thanks UOW for letting me down one last time.
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Anonymous
11 years ago
Talk about blind side so many people who have already planned their life around ther graduation over the coming year!
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Rosie chapple
11 years ago
Change the graduation ceremonies back to December!
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Sarah Gouveia
11 years ago
I am not happy about the changes to the graduation dates. It's going to be very difficult to get a day off after getting a new grad position. It's just a very big inconvenience.
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Anna Mysliborski
11 years ago
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This Change would mean that medicine does not graduate as a cohort as the following year we will be undertaking internships within the state, interstate and overseas. Might as well send mine in the mail if I can't graduate with my cohort!
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Erin Duff
11 years ago
This is honestly a joke. Graduation isn't just about receiving that bit of paper, it's a celebration of all the work you've put into your three / four years of studying, no matter WHAT you are studying. Wearing that blue gown and getting up on that stage might seem like a silly thing to complain about, but to have that delayed for SO long after you finish - seems to take away the significance of such a ceremony. I call bullshit on this 'catering to the increased amount of students'. If you finish at the end of the year, you deserve to graduate at the end of the year.
And this doesn't even affect me, I'm graduating mid-year, but this is still absolutely infuriating. I hope they change this.
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David Walker
11 years ago
My wife is due to graduate in December but with this change she may miss the graduation ceremony because she will be a nurse & may very well be working out of the area or on a shift that will not allow her to be there.
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Tiarna-Jayde Eichler Cunial
11 years ago
this isnt remotely fair
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Anonymous
11 years ago
Graduation should be in January...
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Tiffany Patterson
11 years ago
uow should at least keep all graduations running as per normal and only make the changes effective from 2016 onwards.
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Jessica reid
11 years ago
no change to graduation!
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phillippa ebelt
11 years ago
This change is absolutely ridi
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Sara Reynolds
11 years ago
This is very unfair on yje Dtudents snd their families.
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David Rienits
11 years ago
Grandiose load of no.
We will have to re-meet everyone in the degree on the day before we re-say goodbye to them. It defeats the whole point.
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Samantha stiff
11 years ago
We need graduation to be moved back to December or in at least January.
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Anonymous
11 years ago
What an anticlimax for those graduates. Attending graduation and being handed a degree at a ceremony acknowledges that years of hard work are now at an end and it's time to celebrate and welcome the next chapter of life. It's a rite of passage that you are denying your students. You should be ashamed.
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Lucas Brennan
11 years ago
Very unfair that some of us will have to wait for our ceremony, coming back to graduate definitely takes away from such a special event
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Ashleigh Debono
11 years ago
The fact that there was a lack of consultation on the matter and that the changes were advised to students so late in the year is ridiculous. There has been no explanation as to why certain faculties have been favoured over others in maintaining a December graduation date. I do not understand how moving a graduation ceremony back 3/4 months will deliver a better quality graduation ceremony. From the sounds of many people's comments on the petition it is clear that the changes (particularly being made so late in the year) will result in many not being able to attend their graduation ceremony which is not right.
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Chengyuan Huang
11 years ago
My visa will expire on March 2016 that means I would not able to attend my graduation ceremony. That's not fair for us as international students. We study very hard to pass all the subjects and graduation ceremony is a big issue for us as well as our family and friends. They has already set their schedule to attend my ceremony but now everything just screwed up.
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Nicole Matheson
11 years ago
I would take a January graduation, I don't mind them wanting extra time but that many months is just unfair to many students especially when up until a few days ago it was December
Absolutely appauled at the changes to graduation dates. It's a celebration for making it out of university alive and should be celebrated shortly after finishing. Not the following year. Not only have I arranged for family members to travel overseas for my graduation but I will now have to apply for time off work from my new graduate job. Thanks UOW for letting me down one last time.
Talk about blind side so many people who have already planned their life around ther graduation over the coming year!
Change the graduation ceremonies back to December!
I am not happy about the changes to the graduation dates. It's going to be very difficult to get a day off after getting a new grad position. It's just a very big inconvenience.
This Change would mean that medicine does not graduate as a cohort as the following year we will be undertaking internships within the state, interstate and overseas. Might as well send mine in the mail if I can't graduate with my cohort!
This is honestly a joke. Graduation isn't just about receiving that bit of paper, it's a celebration of all the work you've put into your three / four years of studying, no matter WHAT you are studying. Wearing that blue gown and getting up on that stage might seem like a silly thing to complain about, but to have that delayed for SO long after you finish - seems to take away the significance of such a ceremony. I call bullshit on this 'catering to the increased amount of students'. If you finish at the end of the year, you deserve to graduate at the end of the year. And this doesn't even affect me, I'm graduating mid-year, but this is still absolutely infuriating. I hope they change this.
My wife is due to graduate in December but with this change she may miss the graduation ceremony because she will be a nurse & may very well be working out of the area or on a shift that will not allow her to be there.
this isnt remotely fair
Graduation should be in January...
uow should at least keep all graduations running as per normal and only make the changes effective from 2016 onwards.
no change to graduation!
This change is absolutely ridi
This is very unfair on yje Dtudents snd their families.
Grandiose load of no. We will have to re-meet everyone in the degree on the day before we re-say goodbye to them. It defeats the whole point.
We need graduation to be moved back to December or in at least January.
What an anticlimax for those graduates. Attending graduation and being handed a degree at a ceremony acknowledges that years of hard work are now at an end and it's time to celebrate and welcome the next chapter of life. It's a rite of passage that you are denying your students. You should be ashamed.
Very unfair that some of us will have to wait for our ceremony, coming back to graduate definitely takes away from such a special event
The fact that there was a lack of consultation on the matter and that the changes were advised to students so late in the year is ridiculous. There has been no explanation as to why certain faculties have been favoured over others in maintaining a December graduation date. I do not understand how moving a graduation ceremony back 3/4 months will deliver a better quality graduation ceremony. From the sounds of many people's comments on the petition it is clear that the changes (particularly being made so late in the year) will result in many not being able to attend their graduation ceremony which is not right.
My visa will expire on March 2016 that means I would not able to attend my graduation ceremony. That's not fair for us as international students. We study very hard to pass all the subjects and graduation ceremony is a big issue for us as well as our family and friends. They has already set their schedule to attend my ceremony but now everything just screwed up.
I would take a January graduation, I don't mind them wanting extra time but that many months is just unfair to many students especially when up until a few days ago it was December