Overview
- Ethan Scott Brown’s family received his BSc Geography with Honours (Second Class, Division i) at a Glasgow graduation ceremony on Monday.
- Vice chancellor Andy Schofield publicly acknowledged Brown’s achievements and his loss before presenting the degree to the family.
- Brown, 23, died on December 13, 2024, after being told in September he would not be eligible to graduate because a course had no recorded grade.
- An internal review later found he had been wrongly graded and should have graduated with a 2:1, prompting an apology and admissions of communication failings by the university.
- The Lord Advocate has reopened the investigation with the HSIU assessing circumstances, and the Scottish Funding Council’s referral has led to a QAA targeted review whose visit is complete with a report due in the coming months.