King's Lynn town centre came to a standstill at the weekend as over 150 students processed through the streets after graduating in front of proud family and friends at the Alive Corn Exchange, on Saturday 10th October.
Graduation is viewed as one of the most prestigious days of the year for CWA, with students from both Cambridgeshire and Norfolk receiving their degrees in front of family and friends at the Alive Corn Exchange, King’s Lynn.
As well as standard proceedings, the Veterinary Nursing graduates made their Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons declaration. The approval by the RCVS means that students graduating from these courses now join the Register of Veterinary Nurses without having to undertake a pre-registration examination.
Rosanna Day, 22, from March, was named University Centre West Anglia’s Student of the Year 2016. Rosanna - known as Rosie to friends - studied BSc (Hons) Veterinary Nursing with Applied Animal Behaviour at CWA’s Cambridge Campus in Milton. She has graduated with a well-deserved First Class Honours.
Rosanna was nominated by her lecturers for her “exemplary academic record across all four years of her study” and her involvement as lead student ambassador for the QAA Higher Education Review. Her lecturers said that she “epitomises what is required from a veterinary nursing professional – she is an outstanding student who has demonstrated competence and commitment during her veterinary practice placements and since completing her studies, has secured a post at a leading veterinary hospital.”
Rosanna said: “I was not expecting to win student of the year at all. I really enjoyed my course; we had some amazing lecturers in our final year and without them, my cohort would not have done half as well as we have done. We were quite a small group but, at the end of the day, we are all such good friends now and we will all stay in touch.
“I have already got a job at a veterinary hospital in King’s Lynn. I might look at specialising further down the line but at the moment I am excited to get stuck in to my job, fully qualified. My dad and my little sister were in the audience at graduation, I don’t think they were expecting me to win either! I did keep looking for them while I was on stage but I think they were sitting quite far back so I couldn’t see them!”
As is tradition, the academic procession walked the streets of King’s Lynn prior to the ceremony and again after, when graduates were paraded through the Vancouver Quarter to be congratulated by the awaiting public.
The College of West Anglia now provides higher education opportunities to well over 400 students and this year 155 students graduated from 20 programmes.
Principal David Pomfret said: “Our HE students have sacrificed much to achieve success and today is a day of celebration for you, our graduands. Each of you has made the most of what the college has offered you. Your hard work and commitment has paid off and today you are graduating! Like my colleagues and I, you should be extremely proud of yourselves and what you have achieved. On behalf of everyone here, I would like to wish you all the very best for the future as you move on to employment or further study. You have a bright future ahead of you. Be ambitious about what you can achieve in the future.”
King's Lynn town centre came to a standstill at the weekend as over 150 students processed through the streets after graduating in front of proud family and friends at the Alive Corn Exchange, on Saturday 10th October.
Graduation is viewed as one of the most prestigious days of the year for CWA, with students from both Cambridgeshire and Norfolk receiving their degrees in front of family and friends at the Alive Corn Exchange, King’s Lynn.
As well as standard proceedings, the Veterinary Nursing graduates made their Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons declaration. The approval by the RCVS means that students graduating from these courses now join the Register of Veterinary Nurses without having to undertake a pre-registration examination.
Rosanna Day, 22, from March, was named University Centre West Anglia’s Student of the Year 2016. Rosanna - known as Rosie to friends - studied BSc (Hons) Veterinary Nursing with Applied Animal Behaviour at CWA’s Cambridge Campus in Milton. She has graduated with a well-deserved First Class Honours.
Rosanna was nominated by her lecturers for her “exemplary academic record across all four years of her study” and her involvement as lead student ambassador for the QAA Higher Education Review. Her lecturers said that she “epitomises what is required from a veterinary nursing professional – she is an outstanding student who has demonstrated competence and commitment during her veterinary practice placements and since completing her studies, has secured a post at a leading veterinary hospital.”
Rosanna said: “I was not expecting to win student of the year at all. I really enjoyed my course; we had some amazing lecturers in our final year and without them, my cohort would not have done half as well as we have done. We were quite a small group but, at the end of the day, we are all such good friends now and we will all stay in touch.
“I have already got a job at a veterinary hospital in King’s Lynn. I might look at specialising further down the line but at the moment I am excited to get stuck in to my job, fully qualified. My dad and my little sister were in the audience at graduation, I don’t think they were expecting me to win either! I did keep looking for them while I was on stage but I think they were sitting quite far back so I couldn’t see them!”
As is tradition, the academic procession walked the streets of King’s Lynn prior to the ceremony and again after, when graduates were paraded through the Vancouver Quarter to be congratulated by the awaiting public.
The College of West Anglia now provides higher education opportunities to well over 400 students and this year 155 students graduated from 20 programmes.
Principal David Pomfret said: “Our HE students have sacrificed much to achieve success and today is a day of celebration for you, our graduands. Each of you has made the most of what the college has offered you. Your hard work and commitment has paid off and today you are graduating! Like my colleagues and I, you should be extremely proud of yourselves and what you have achieved. On behalf of everyone here, I would like to wish you all the very best for the future as you move on to employment or further study. You have a bright future ahead of you. Be ambitious about what you can achieve in the future.”