Stoner sues University over 2:2

ringo747 said:
It does but then again who really gets well supported at uni? It's all about being left to your own devices.
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Well no, it's being left to your own devices and not being forced support, but you can seek support and should receive it.

Can't help but think the person is an idiot anyway...just accept it and move on, is what I've done with my rubbish result. Despite being informed that my disso was really good and I'd easily be able to come out with a great result, it did poorly when marked by my tutor. :rolleyes: But I accepted it as there is nothing that can be done about it. :)
 
Who in their right mind would employ this guy seeing what a potential pita he could be later in his career.


"I'm suing you all because i didn't get a pay rise and i think i deserve one"
 
its amazing what googling somebodys name can bring up. Surely every employer must be doing this by now.

For Example if you had the name Chloe Mafia on your CV ...

Or maybe Wendy Lewis

Its amazing what comes up that could put employers off ...
 
A good friend of mine is a stoner, and recently completed his masters and is now working for a very reputable company. It's like trying to say someone is condemned to a bad degree for drinking also. As long as you do things in moderation, it's their business what they do with their time. It isn't impossible to be successful if you enjoy the occasional doobie.
 
Efour2 said:
So he is infact a giant drama douche probably born with the silver spoon in his mouth too.

i hope he has an accident
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why is any of the above relevant?

it is perfectly possible to suffer from a poor supervisor in your final year. Obviously it's possible to do well even with a poor supervisor, but it does make it a lot more difficult. I am firmly of the opinion that my degree suffered a difference in classification because of the actions (or lack of) from my supervisor. Essentially I had positive feedback, positive feedback, positive feedback -> handed it in, marked by same supervisor -> poor mark. I depended on the feedback from my supervisor and my result suffered from that feedback being poor.

I wouldn't have sued, but I did come close to appealling my grading.
 
It's a student's responsibility to manage their own education. Universities simply provide resources to enable proactive learning.
 
He has a fair point and it's entirely possible that he was lumped with a poor supervisor for his last year.

A friend of mine who also took Pharmacology at UoB was stuck with a Professor whose sole purpose was to push his own ideas and his own opinions onto us.
When writing her dissertation he slated her work because it didn't agree with his ideas and have her final draft a provisional 'fail' unless she drastically changed it.

Needless to say she had someone else look at it and said that it was more than perfect because it provided a balanced argument for all of her findings. Her original supervisor wasn't included in the final marking and I'm fairly sure he's been taken out of the tutor/supervisor role he somehow held for so long.
 
Abraham said:
it is perfectly possible to suffer from a poor supervisor in your final year. Obviously it's possible to do well even with a poor supervisor, but it does make it a lot more difficult. I am firmly of the opinion that my degree suffered a difference in classification because of the actions (or lack of) from my supervisor. Essentially I had positive feedback, positive feedback, positive feedback -> handed it in, marked by same supervisor -> poor mark. I depended on the feedback from my supervisor and my result suffered from that feedback being poor.
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This is pretty much what I had, which is a right shame really. I was informed the program I was writing was brilliant and that he'd love to use it with students next year to show how the sort programs they would be dealing with work...which got me all hyped up and then he ripped it to shreds and gave me a rubbish mark. :/

Still, these things happen and it wasn't my disso that screwed my final year, it was my exams. :(
 
rodo said:
It's a student's responsibility to manage their own education. Universities simply provide resources to enable proactive learning.
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Agreed with regards to lecturers + everything else pre final year, project/dissertation supervisors are different though, it's not that they should help you with the work, but their feedback can make or break it
 
Abraham said:
why is any of the above relevant?

it is perfectly possible to suffer from a poor supervisor in your final year. Obviously it's possible to do well even with a poor supervisor, but it does make it a lot more difficult. I am firmly of the opinion that my degree suffered a difference in classification because of the actions (or lack of) from my supervisor. Essentially I had positive feedback, positive feedback, positive feedback -> handed it in, marked by same supervisor -> poor mark. I depended on the feedback from my supervisor and my result suffered from that feedback being poor.

I wouldn't have sued, but I did come close to appealling my grading.
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Your work was marked internally only ? Mine (dissertation ) was marked by at least 1 external source too. Both graded me 2:1

i would have raised an issue if that was the case.
 
I don't know much about electrical engineering as a subject but I wouldn't have thought there was too much that is subjective about it i.e. for a disseration you're either right or wrong in your contentions and research here?

However irrespective of that I don't think that he should be able to sue unless he was palpably disadvantaged by his professors/supervisor refusing to do their job - if they simply weren't as proactive as he would have liked then I'd say he's SOL. If he felt that he wasn't getting adequate support then he ought to have been raising it with the university as it isn't intended to be simply directed learning as you might find at school so unless he was doing that then I can't see how this case has any chance of success. It's difficult to give an entirely fair assessment without necessarily knowing all relevant facts but I'd say prima facie it doesn't look all that good for him.
 
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