The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)
Graduation day awaits students.
Mother and daughter will graduate at same time having studied together for three years
More than 1,100 students will collect their degrees in Dundee during the next fortnight.
Dundee University students from around the world will fill the Caird Hall during tomorrow and Friday for the university’s winter graduation ceremony.
A total of 230 students from Abertay University will then collect their own degrees on Friday November 24.
Among those graduating from Dundee University are mum and daughter Kerry Perrie, 46 and Robyn Watson, 27. The pair will graduate with nursing degrees after studying together for three years at the university’s Kirkcaldy campus.
They will also be celebrating the fact both have secured jobs at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy.
Proud mum Kerry said: “She (Robyn) used to say I was the class mum. There’s been many a time she’s had a tantrum because she claimed I helped everyone except for her. But I always said she’d thank me for it one day.”
Robyn said: “She was always there for me. We would study together and help each other out.”
At Abertay, paralympic athlete Karen Darke will receive an honorary degree.
Karen has taken a host of medals in her career, including gold for Great Britain in the hand-cycling time trials at the Rio Paralympics last year.
jmilligan@thecourier.co.uk