Wednesday 24th November 2021
Canterbury
The next Graduation and Prize Giving Ceremony will provisionally be held on Wednesday 24 November at Canterbury Cathedral.
From mid-September 2021 onwards, Graduands who qualified between November 2019 and October 2020 will receive an invitation email once they become eligible to attend.
The Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) was unable to hold its graduation ceremony as planned in November 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and consequently there is a cohort of members waiting to graduate. On top of this ABDO’s examinations department has continued to hold examinations where possible, so this number is growing.
Graduation is a special day, allowing students to celebrate their hard work and success with family and friends and ABDO is keen to reassure students that plans are underway for a graduation in 2021, as long as regulations at that time allow a gathering of a suitable size at Canterbury Cathedral.
There are a number of constricting factors that will affect ABDO’s plans. The priority for the 2021 event will be to invite all those members who qualified between November 2019 and October 2020. A second graduation will be held in 2022 for November 2020 – October 2021 graduands, as long as regulations permit this at the time.