Ditto at Sussex. We won't issue a degree certificate with a new name under
any circumstances.
Usually an academic record for a changed name states 'XXX now known as YYY'
but in very exceptional circumstances (e.g. gender change) we have issued it
just in the new name. No problems so far but like others, we're keeping an
eye on emerging human rights legislation.
[incidentally, my name means something rather rude in Iranian I am told, but
I suppose I will just have to live with it!]
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| From: Iain Rowan <[log in to unmask]>
| Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 10:49:04 +0100
| Subject: Issuing degree certs and changes of name
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| We receive a number of requests every year to produce new award
| parchments for students who have changed their names.
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| 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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Anne Johnson, Assistant Registrar
Student Systems Office, Sussex House,
University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RH
Telephone (01273) 678761; Fax (01273) 877389
E-mail [log in to unmask]
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/sso/
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