The first of UTAS’ 2018 summer graduates accepted their certificates in the formal setting across more than a dozen disciplines including health, medicine, science and engineering, arts, law, and humanities.

Friends Sue Dale and Claire Kerrison were thrilled to graduate from their nursing degrees together in the first of the Friday ceremonies.

Ms Dale completed a Bachelor of Nursing with Ms Kerrison finalising her two-year post-graduate professional honors in acute care.

“You can use it across all the hospitals, but there’s lots of different ones you can use across intensive care and anesthetics,” Ms Kerrison said. 

“It’s always nice, you just feel like a part of something.”

“It’s just a special day. How often do you do this in your life? Not that often.”

All together, UTAS will have held five graduation ceremonies at the venue by the end of Saturday evening.

On Saturday the Town and Gown procession will start the day’s formalities at 10.15am, with ceremonies following at 11am, 2.30pm and 6pm.

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