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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...t-fault-graduates-21-may-have-simply-coasted/
Oxford University was not at fault for a graduate's 2:1 degree as he may have "simply coasted", a judge has ruled.
Faiz Siddiqui had attempted to sue the university over his degree mark, which he said cost him a career as a high-flying lawyer.
But Mr Justice Foskett ruled that his tutors could not be held responsible and suggested that Mr Siddiqui did not prepare properly for a crucial examination which he performed poorly in.
He expected all the texts for the exam to be covered in class, the judge said, which was not an assumption shared by his fellow students or his teachers.
The claimant, then a History student at Brasenose College, Oxford, "accepted that his reading of the texts was selective", for the "gobbets" paper, the High Court judge said, and "spoon-feeding" by tutors was "hardly to be expected for an Oxford undergraduate degree course".
His attitude "raises the question of whether he simply thought that he had “cracked” the way a gobbets paper was dealt with and simply coasted towards the Finals paper," he said.
Mr Siddiqui had claimed that missing out on a First led to rejection from Harvard Law School and had affected his mental health and his career.
He received a 2:1 from Oxford in 2000 and has since worked at law firms including Clifford Chance, CMS Cameron McKenna and Field Fisher Waterhouse.
None of these roles lasted more than a few months, and he claimed that his poor performance at work was linked to health problems caused by his poor degree result.
But the judge said his employers had complained of "poor behaviour, rudeness and lack of IT skills", and added: "There is nothing at any point to suggest that what is said to have been his preoccupation with his Oxford degree result played any part in these false starts".
The judge added that it was possible that Mr Siddiqui "simply gets over-anxious during the examination process and does not do himself justice on occasions".
He added: "However, anxiety producing a less than otherwise merited result is not an unfamiliar examination scenario generally nor, in his case, is it the fault or responsibility of his teachers."
Mr Siddiqui "has a very significant track record for looking for someone else or some other factor to blame for any failure on his part to achieve what he perceives to have been the right result for him", he said.
Dismissing the case he said: "It is to be hoped that he can re-focus, perhaps lower his expectations at least for the time being and start using his undoubted intelligence to create a worthwhile future for himself".
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Shitskin sues Oxford. Ok, half shit skin. But still look shitskin.
Oxford University was not at fault for a graduate's 2:1 degree as he may have "simply coasted", a judge has ruled.
Faiz Siddiqui had attempted to sue the university over his degree mark, which he said cost him a career as a high-flying lawyer.
But Mr Justice Foskett ruled that his tutors could not be held responsible and suggested that Mr Siddiqui did not prepare properly for a crucial examination which he performed poorly in.
He expected all the texts for the exam to be covered in class, the judge said, which was not an assumption shared by his fellow students or his teachers.
The claimant, then a History student at Brasenose College, Oxford, "accepted that his reading of the texts was selective", for the "gobbets" paper, the High Court judge said, and "spoon-feeding" by tutors was "hardly to be expected for an Oxford undergraduate degree course".
His attitude "raises the question of whether he simply thought that he had “cracked” the way a gobbets paper was dealt with and simply coasted towards the Finals paper," he said.
Mr Siddiqui had claimed that missing out on a First led to rejection from Harvard Law School and had affected his mental health and his career.
He received a 2:1 from Oxford in 2000 and has since worked at law firms including Clifford Chance, CMS Cameron McKenna and Field Fisher Waterhouse.
None of these roles lasted more than a few months, and he claimed that his poor performance at work was linked to health problems caused by his poor degree result.
But the judge said his employers had complained of "poor behaviour, rudeness and lack of IT skills", and added: "There is nothing at any point to suggest that what is said to have been his preoccupation with his Oxford degree result played any part in these false starts".
The judge added that it was possible that Mr Siddiqui "simply gets over-anxious during the examination process and does not do himself justice on occasions".
He added: "However, anxiety producing a less than otherwise merited result is not an unfamiliar examination scenario generally nor, in his case, is it the fault or responsibility of his teachers."
Mr Siddiqui "has a very significant track record for looking for someone else or some other factor to blame for any failure on his part to achieve what he perceives to have been the right result for him", he said.
Dismissing the case he said: "It is to be hoped that he can re-focus, perhaps lower his expectations at least for the time being and start using his undoubted intelligence to create a worthwhile future for himself".
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Shitskin sues Oxford. Ok, half shit skin. But still look shitskin.
