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Graduation Plans for 2020 and 2021 Students

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Dear University of Chester,

I am writing to make an open government request for all the information to which I am entitled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

I have an interest in how you have approached your graduation ceremonies during the Coronavirus pandemic. Please could you answer the following:

1) For your students who graduated in 2020, have they had an in-person graduation yet?

2) If no to question 1., are there plans to have an in-person graduation, when restrictions have been lifted? If so, will they be the same as previous cohorts (2019, 2018, etc.) and when are they currently planned for?

3) For your students who are due to graduate in 2021, will they have an in-person graduation? If no, what are your plans for these students?

Yours faithfully,

Kamran Ali

University of Chester FOIA, University of Chester

Dear Sir or Madam,

 

Thank you for your recent request (dated 11/05/21), Please find below
response from the University:

 

1) For your students who graduated in 2020, have they had an in-person
graduation yet?

Our March 2020 ceremonies went ahead, as in-person events, before the
initial lockdown. All students who would have graduated subsequently, from
both our November 2020 and March 2021 cohorts, have not had an in-person
graduation yet. Online virtual celebrations were held to mark these
postponed ceremonies, but these were not replacements for the in-person
events.

 

2) If no to question 1., are there plans to have an in-person graduation,
when restrictions have been lifted? If so, will they be the same as
previous cohorts (2019, 2018, etc.) and when are they currently planned
for?

The University is committed to giving all graduates an in-person ceremony.
The intention is that the ceremony experience is as close to normal as
possible. We do not yet know when circumstances will allow us to do this
safely and effectively, so rescheduled dates have not been set.

 

3) For your students who are due to graduate in 2021, will they have an
in-person graduation? If no, what are your plans for these students?

See response to question 2.

 

Yours

 

Please send responses to [email address]

 

Thank you and kind regards.

 

University of Chester

Parkgate Road

Chester

CH1 4BJ

 

[email address]

http://www.chester.ac.uk/

 

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