Dear Robert
We are facing the same questions. Luckily we do not supply
our names to any parties except for T-shirts. We have
notified the T-shirt suppliers that we will no longer be
supplying names for them after this summer. With regard to
the degree programme, we have decided that we will no longer
print the degree classifications in the programme again
after this summer.
Would you be able to let me know what you find out from
others please?
Helen Atkinson
Graduation Officer
"Dr R.J.Green" wrote:
>
> In common with, I suppose, every other university, the
> Graduation Office at the University of Southampton supplies
> the names of those students attending a graduation
> ceremony to a number of outside sources: the local press
> (for publication in a special graduation edition); our
> gownmakers and video company; and a company that produces
> T-shirts emblazoned with the names of graduating classes.
> In addition, of course, the full names of all graduands
> are published in the programme which is given to every
> guest and graduand.
>
> We have been releasing names for these purposes for many
> years and have never had any complaint. However, in order
> to protect ourselves against the possibility of a litigious
> student citing the Data Protection Act, should we request
> graduating students to give us explicit and written
> permission for their names to be released for these
> purposes?
>
> Any replies, please, to me rather than to the mailbase.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Robert Green
>
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Academic Affairs
Keele University
fax: 01782 632343
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