We receive a number of requests every year to produce new award
parchments for students who have changed their names.
The reasons for the change run from marriage/divorce, through to changes
of sex, and most recently a request from a student who has changed his
name by statutory declaration, as he was planning to work in an
Arabic-speaking country, and his original name had offensive and
blasphemous connotations in Arabic.
How do colleagues respond to such requests? We have had a policy that
the degree parchment issued at graduation is produced for the student as
named at that time, and that we do not produce new parchments to reflect
changes in name, even on the production of statutory declarations etc.,
but I would like to know how this compares to other institutions.
Thanks
Iain Rowan
Head of the Student Office
University of Sunderland
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