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posted by janrinok on Wednesday November 22 2017, @06:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-couldn't-make-this-stuff-up dept.

An Oxford graduate's failure to get a top degree cost him a lucrative legal career, the High Court has heard.

Faiz Siddiqui alleges "inadequate" teaching on his modern history course resulted in him getting a low upper second degree in June 2000. He blames staff being absent on sabbatical leave and is suing the university for £1m. Oxford denies negligence and causation and says the case is "massively" outside the legal time limit.He said: "Whilst a 2:1 degree from Oxford might rightly seem like a tremendous achievement to most, it fell significantly short of Mr Siddiqui's expectations and was, to him, a huge disappointment."

Mr Mallalieu said his employment history in legal and tax roles was "frankly poor" and he was now unemployed, rather than having a career at the tax bar in England or a major US law firm. Mr Siddiqui also said his clinical depression and insomnia have been significantly exacerbated by his "inexplicable failure". Julian Milford, for Oxford University, told the court Mr Siddiqui complained about insufficient resources, but had only described the teaching as "a little bit dull".

Perhaps he might find employment with "This is Windows calling..."


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday November 22 2017, @10:25PM (3 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 22 2017, @10:25PM (#600386) Journal

    He IS Indian. India has a checkered history of academic wrongdoing. Their MEDICAL students were top notch, world class professionals for most of my lifetime. Then, that all went to hell when the medical industry was restructured, and recent medical grads may or may not know how to pour piss out of a bedpan. Other industries have had their ups and downs. Just do a search on India academic cheating. You'll only find the bad stuff, because no one found it noteworthy when India was doing well.

    Let me find a link or two . . .

    http://www.latimes.com/world/great-reads/la-fg-c1-india-testing-scam-20150717-story.html [latimes.com]

    http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-c1-india-cheating-20140416-m-story.html [latimes.com]

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/600-students-expelled-for-cheating-on-school-exams-114126604867.html [yahoo.com]

    College entrance and college grades carry an entirely different weight in most of Asia, than here in the US, or even throughout the "Western world". The pressures are impossible, so people do the things that people do to reduce that pressure. In India, bribery and cheating are common, and even somewhat acceptable.

    It would be great if they could roll back the craziness in the medical profession. But, it will probably take several decades to undo all the crazy that has happened in the last 15 years or so. And, as the title of the second link suggests, a lot of people are going to die because of the crazy.

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  • (Score: 2) by Nuke on Wednesday November 22 2017, @11:40PM (1 child)

    by Nuke (3162) on Wednesday November 22 2017, @11:40PM (#600428)

    India has a checkered history of academic wrongdoing. Their MEDICAL students were top notch, world class professionals for most of my lifetime.

    I don't think the history was chequered : I believe it was pretty solid.

    I don't know when your lifetime was, but Indian doctors were a joke a long time ago in the UK. Before the National Health Service, back when people paid to see a doctor, Indian doctors were cheap and worked in poor areas. Very often they were not actually qualified but only advertised that they had taken some sort of medical course. "Doctors" with brass plates on their door that said "BA Calcutta (Failed)" were a standing joke that even made its way into a post war popular cartoon strip (The Perishers [wikipedia.org] - search for "calcutta") that would be illegally racist today. I thought "BA Calcutta (Failed)" was just a joke, but I knew an old guy who had actually seen such doctor's brass plates in Liverpool in the 1930's.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Demena on Wednesday November 22 2017, @11:50PM

      by Demena (5637) on Wednesday November 22 2017, @11:50PM (#600431)

      Some were still in existence in the ‘50s. I remember being shown one when I was a kid but I was too young to understand

  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday November 23 2017, @02:30AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Thursday November 23 2017, @02:30AM (#600472) Homepage

    I don't think he's Indian, in origin at least. His name is obviously Arab. Arabs, like Jews, are natural born shysters but without the intelligence Jews possess. If he is concerned about his employment prospects I think he should pick a different career field, one of which his kind is better-suited: used-car sales or liquor store operator.