The cost of graduation really does take the piss, especially when you *have* to wear a gown and know you’re thus going to paying a minimum of £50 (if you don’t have to travel or want official photos or want extra tickets) for the privilege.
More importantly:
> A spokesman added that it offered a free gowns and photographs package to students who had been supported as care leavers, estranged students, young adult carers, forces veterans or asylum seekers.
Why don’t, amongst others, universities understand that there are plenty of people from poorer backgrounds who don’t meet the requirement of being a carer/estranged/veteran etc., but who are, nonetheless, still struggling immensely right now. It almost feels like a punishment that you’re the ‘wrong kind of disadvantaged’.
Lol off to the Amazon warehouse for you then /s
I skipped mine, was a small fortune and couldn’t afford it
I just didn’t go because it sounded fucking tedious.
When I graduated, there was a pub in front of the town hall where the locals took great delight in shouting ‘look! It’s Batman!’ at every robed graduate who came in.
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I didn’t go because it’s a load of bollocks
As someone about to work a graduation all this week there’s still a steady increase in students graduating both in every ceremony and blocks / number of ceremonies. I never went to Uni myself so really I’ve no strong feelings on graduations one way or another, just a job.
Couple of months ago we invited people who had virtual graduations through lockdown back to have a celebration, expecting maybe a quater of people to come back for it – after all they’ve been gratuates for in some cases a year and a half, and there travel from wherever they are now for them and families for more of a victory lap than anything.
Well it was almost full every single time with 4 ceremonies a day from Weds though Saturday – Saturday being the exception as they were almost exclusivley international students with only two ceremonies at about half capacity.
So this week for a “normal” graduation from Mon afternoon through Saturday there’s 3 packed ceremonies a day. I am thanking my lucky stars that our main hall has brand new air con as I’ll hardly be out of there during this heatwave.
Seems it wasn’t just me, they wanted £110 to attend, including the robes. I then had to pay £15 each for guest tickets, £60 for a photo package and £5 parking. They contacted me 4 or 5 timnes trying to get me to attend, I was having none of it.
Yeah, I didn’t go to my graduation.
It was expensive, I’d repeated a couple of years (once cause I messed up, and again because I managed to get my back broken in a car crash a week before exams) so I didn’t know anyone graduating on the same day, and I was generally just fed up with the whole system.
Robbed my grandparents of some photos to show off on Facey, but it’s not like they were offering to pay for them.
It’s nothing new. About 15 years ago my uni tried to charge me £40 for graduation. I told them I wouldn’t be attending – I’m an orphan and don’t find it fun to be around lots of peers celebrating their milestones with their families, and I couldn’t justify the cost. I offered to pay whatever it cost to print and post my certificate, or just to print it and I’d pick it up. They refused to let me have my certificate or make my graduation official if I didn’t pay to attend the ceremony (they didn’t care whether I actually showed up or not).
The upshot is that I never officially graduated, but they couldn’t refuse to send me my transcript so I used that to get into my postgrad, which is the only qualification my clients have ever cared about.
I didn’t go to my Bachelors gaduation because I couldn’t afford it. I’ve got my Masters graduation on Thursday – gown hire plus the most basic photo pack cost me £88. It feels frivolous but I’m treating myself because fuck yeah, I got the Big D during a pandemic. I got two free tickets with my graduation registration, I think this is standard, at least it was when my mates graduated in the ’90s.
These are the last possibilities of a university to wring any money out of you so they make the effort extra special. You can skip the whole dog and pony show if you like. I did as I get no utility from “celebrating” a graduation. I’ve already moved on by those points.
What was really annoying at my uni was to actually formally graduate cost about 30 quid back in the 90s. If you didn’t cough up the admin fee you couldn’t formally graduate. It rips my knitting to this day.
My graduation wasn’t a gown affair, just a private ceremony – which was during Covid so spread over a few days so kinda sad we didn’t all get to see our peers properly, and was held almost a year later.
I did go to my friends university one some years before and did their photography for them just as a mate with a dslr – they bought me lunch in return which was nice of them.
That’s insane 👀
Have a party with your mates before you all split off to wherever you go next and get your degree in the post. You get the best of the two most important parts of uni done that way and it costs far less. I’m sure gradation is nice but it was the evenings out that really cemented finishing uni for me. I still have the last group photo of us all saved in Google Drive and it means more to me than any graduation photo would.
My uni was ridiculous.
Gown was 150 to rent, didn’t include the hat (buy it separately on amazon if you care), 50 for the sash and 20 quid for any additional tickets.
Fuck that, i just didn’t bother to go.
My friend who I went through college and uni with couldn’t go. His mum passed years ago and his dad left, so he lives on his own with no income because the sandwich course wasn’t paid. So couldn’t afford it.
I was really sad for him. My mum paid the £50 for mine. My parents were still there, but I could only have one guest ticket so took my grandad. It was a shame, I was told I couldn’t have anymore tickets, yet there was a graduand with 8 family members there. My family had to watch on the stream. 😐
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The cost of graduation really does take the piss, especially when you *have* to wear a gown and know you’re thus going to paying a minimum of £50 (if you don’t have to travel or want official photos or want extra tickets) for the privilege.
More importantly:
> A spokesman added that it offered a free gowns and photographs package to students who had been supported as care leavers, estranged students, young adult carers, forces veterans or asylum seekers.
Why don’t, amongst others, universities understand that there are plenty of people from poorer backgrounds who don’t meet the requirement of being a carer/estranged/veteran etc., but who are, nonetheless, still struggling immensely right now. It almost feels like a punishment that you’re the ‘wrong kind of disadvantaged’.
Lol off to the Amazon warehouse for you then /s
I skipped mine, was a small fortune and couldn’t afford it
I just didn’t go because it sounded fucking tedious.
When I graduated, there was a pub in front of the town hall where the locals took great delight in shouting ‘look! It’s Batman!’ at every robed graduate who came in.
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I didn’t go because it’s a load of bollocks
As someone about to work a graduation all this week there’s still a steady increase in students graduating both in every ceremony and blocks / number of ceremonies. I never went to Uni myself so really I’ve no strong feelings on graduations one way or another, just a job.
Couple of months ago we invited people who had virtual graduations through lockdown back to have a celebration, expecting maybe a quater of people to come back for it – after all they’ve been gratuates for in some cases a year and a half, and there travel from wherever they are now for them and families for more of a victory lap than anything.
Well it was almost full every single time with 4 ceremonies a day from Weds though Saturday – Saturday being the exception as they were almost exclusivley international students with only two ceremonies at about half capacity.
So this week for a “normal” graduation from Mon afternoon through Saturday there’s 3 packed ceremonies a day. I am thanking my lucky stars that our main hall has brand new air con as I’ll hardly be out of there during this heatwave.
Seems it wasn’t just me, they wanted £110 to attend, including the robes. I then had to pay £15 each for guest tickets, £60 for a photo package and £5 parking. They contacted me 4 or 5 timnes trying to get me to attend, I was having none of it.
Yeah, I didn’t go to my graduation.
It was expensive, I’d repeated a couple of years (once cause I messed up, and again because I managed to get my back broken in a car crash a week before exams) so I didn’t know anyone graduating on the same day, and I was generally just fed up with the whole system.
Robbed my grandparents of some photos to show off on Facey, but it’s not like they were offering to pay for them.
It’s nothing new. About 15 years ago my uni tried to charge me £40 for graduation. I told them I wouldn’t be attending – I’m an orphan and don’t find it fun to be around lots of peers celebrating their milestones with their families, and I couldn’t justify the cost. I offered to pay whatever it cost to print and post my certificate, or just to print it and I’d pick it up. They refused to let me have my certificate or make my graduation official if I didn’t pay to attend the ceremony (they didn’t care whether I actually showed up or not).
The upshot is that I never officially graduated, but they couldn’t refuse to send me my transcript so I used that to get into my postgrad, which is the only qualification my clients have ever cared about.
I didn’t go to my Bachelors gaduation because I couldn’t afford it. I’ve got my Masters graduation on Thursday – gown hire plus the most basic photo pack cost me £88. It feels frivolous but I’m treating myself because fuck yeah, I got the Big D during a pandemic. I got two free tickets with my graduation registration, I think this is standard, at least it was when my mates graduated in the ’90s.
These are the last possibilities of a university to wring any money out of you so they make the effort extra special. You can skip the whole dog and pony show if you like. I did as I get no utility from “celebrating” a graduation. I’ve already moved on by those points.
What was really annoying at my uni was to actually formally graduate cost about 30 quid back in the 90s. If you didn’t cough up the admin fee you couldn’t formally graduate. It rips my knitting to this day.
My graduation wasn’t a gown affair, just a private ceremony – which was during Covid so spread over a few days so kinda sad we didn’t all get to see our peers properly, and was held almost a year later.
I did go to my friends university one some years before and did their photography for them just as a mate with a dslr – they bought me lunch in return which was nice of them.
That’s insane 👀
Have a party with your mates before you all split off to wherever you go next and get your degree in the post. You get the best of the two most important parts of uni done that way and it costs far less. I’m sure gradation is nice but it was the evenings out that really cemented finishing uni for me. I still have the last group photo of us all saved in Google Drive and it means more to me than any graduation photo would.
My uni was ridiculous.
Gown was 150 to rent, didn’t include the hat (buy it separately on amazon if you care), 50 for the sash and 20 quid for any additional tickets.
Fuck that, i just didn’t bother to go.
My friend who I went through college and uni with couldn’t go. His mum passed years ago and his dad left, so he lives on his own with no income because the sandwich course wasn’t paid. So couldn’t afford it.
I was really sad for him. My mum paid the £50 for mine. My parents were still there, but I could only have one guest ticket so took my grandad. It was a shame, I was told I couldn’t have anymore tickets, yet there was a graduand with 8 family members there. My family had to watch on the stream. 😐