kerry davies Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 The NUS has already warned that establishments have been and will be sued; over subsequent employment, tutor face-time, poor lectures and much else besides. There are a few ongoing cases of the employment variety going on and there are now specialist departments in several solicitors' firms purely for education cases. Mostly the cases come up under contract law and the academic habit of over-egging employment prospects gives them a steady flow of "customers". If you make people go £30,000 into debt after selling them a pup, they will want recompense, it is only human nature when there are 80plus applicants for every graduate job advertised and 20% unemployment figures. Don't get me wrong, grads are better off long-term than others of the same age by about 3% but others don't shell out tens of thousands for the privilege of getting £53.45 a week dole. Lighter note? Just love the student who failed because he claimed nobody told him that cut'n'pasting from the internet was plagiarism. He is trying to sue the uni! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Lewis Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Lighter note? Just love the student who failed because he claimed nobody told him that cut'n'pasting from the internet was plagiarism...... One law student sued for breach of contract... and won. From memory this was the case where the judge told the student (who was representing himself) that he must have learnt something useful... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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