GLASGOW University has postponed all graduations as a result of the coronavirus. 

The institution made the "particularly hard" decision to not hold the ceremonies this summer - which comes as the number of people with the virus in Greater Glasgow alone nears 60.

Graduates - including those at the Dumfries Campus - will now receive their scrolls through the post - on time - to ensure they can pursue jobs and postgraduate study.

 

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Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli, Principal and Vice-Chancellor at the Uni, pledged that students will have their celebration - just at a later date.

He said: "Today we've decided that we should postpone our Commemoration Day, and more importnatly for our students who are due to graduate, we are planning to postpone our graduations which normally take place at the end of June and beginning of July.

"We haven't taken this decision lightly because we do realise how important these occasions are but we were aware that a number of our graduates, were going to start planning their travel.

"So what we're going to do is we're going to postpone it, make sure people receive their graduations scrolls on time becuase many of them will want to go onto their jobs or their postgraduate study.

"We know just how important Graduation Day is for our graduates, for their damiles, for their friends, so I am absolutely pledging we will have this celebration - we'll just have it at a later time when all of this is finished."

It is currently hoped that winter graduation ceremonies will go ahead as planned in November, but the uni accepts that "plans may have to change" with the developing COVID-19 situtation.