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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..."
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday November 23 2017, @02:37AM (1 child)
I believe that it should be a law, in America at least, that professors should not only be fluent in English but also understandable in it. You're never going to solve the problem of professors being autistic retards, but at least they can work on their accent.
I know for a fact that there are accent classes (for professionals and outside of school) geared toward specific cultures (Orientals) so that they learn how to sound less Chinky when speaking English. But by far the worse accent person I worked with was an African, one of those really Blacks ones who are so Black that they are actually blue, like the bluing on a gun-barrel. It was straight Ooga-booga even though the guy was the best technician in the company.
What is needed is a real-time translator that one can wear on their head or chest, even if it has to go into the cloud to do the translating. I would rather hear broken English in a good accent than fluent English that sounds like a drunkard with 5 dicks in his mouth.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:30PM
Try comprehending someone from the Louisiana swamps. It's a French/English/Drunken/Slobber accent.