St. Pat’s students voice concerns over graduation location

The petition is asking for students based on the St. Patrick’s College campus to support the final year graduation being held on the grounds of the Drumcondra campus this year. As of writing this, the petition has received 365 signatures with an ultimate goal of 400 signatures.

DCU, St. Patrick’s College, CICE and Mater Dei Institute officially incorporated in September 2016. Final year students of the academic year 2016/17 were the last to enroll in the colleges in question. Students in the years below enrolled as DCU students, as the colleges prepared for the incorporation.

The majority of final year St. Patrick’s, CICE and Mater Dei students have never taken classes based on the Glasnevin campus.

“In my role, as a Students’ Union Vice President and as a future student next year in DCU, I’ll be returning back as a primary school teacher 4th year, I think it’s only fair that those students based on St. Patrick’s Campus for their entire degree that don’t have any other lecture on any other campus at all should be afforded the opportunity to graduate on that campus,” DCUSU VP for Education and Placement Manus McLoughlin said.

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