We, the 4th year cohort of Primary Education at UOW in 2015, are overwhelmingly and extremely disappointed with the recently announced decision to change the date of our graduation ceremony.

We will complete our degree in November 2015 yet our academic documents will not be posted to us until the following January and we may attend a graduation ceremony in March or April of 2016.

The majority of our cohort have organised personal commitments and travel arrangements around the previously stated graduation week commencing Mon 14 December 2015. In 2016, many of our cohort will have accepted job offers throughout NSW, interstate or overseas.

We feel enormously let down by this decision and request an urgent review, reconsideration and reversal of this decision in our final year of study at the University of Wollongong.