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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: 2) by SanityCheck on Thursday November 23 2017, @08:37PM

    by SanityCheck (5190) on Thursday November 23 2017, @08:37PM (#600804)

    There is a lot of stupid people in the world in general. Before we used to give them a shovel and point out where they need to dig. Now we send them to universities, and the liberal-progressive-group-think that runs the campuses will rip your head-off and drink your blood if you tell any of these morons that perhaps they are wasting their time and your tax money. I have been a TA in comp sci at Community College and I dared not tell the fucking idiot taking the same class second time that was clearly guessing answers to basic questions I asked him that he should do something else with his time. I mean for fuck's sake he couldn't even say "I don't know," he had to make some shit up even though it made him sound even more retarded.

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