Is a lost First worth £5m?
After Andrew Croskery comes Tony Chinedu Wogu. According to the Daily Telegraph and The Register, Tony Chinedu Wogu has failed in his bid to sue the University of Bradford for £5m compensation, Continue Reading
Re Croskery [2010] NIQB 129
On this blog last year, I discussed the circumstances in which a university student could challenge a grade in court. Just before Christmas, the Northern Ireland High Court handed down a very Continue Reading
Leave is refused in QUB graduate’s judicial review of his degree result
It's being reported that Andrew Croskery has failed in his bid to review the 2:2 engineering degree he was awarded by Queen's University Belfast. According to the BBC: Judge rules no judicial Continue Reading
Grading and marking, updates
First, to my posts on grading and marking, I must add a wonderful post by not that kind of doctor applying the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross model of five stages of grief - denial, anger, bargaining, Continue Reading
Making the grade
Via the incomparable 9th level Ireland blog, I (rather belatedly) learn that Andrew Croskery, a graduate of Queen's University Belfast who has taken judicial review proceedings to challenge his Continue Reading
Grievance poses academy ‘threat’
Further to my two previous posts concerning student challenges to degree classification, there is a piece in this week's Times Higher Education on the judicial review proceedings taken by Andrew Continue Reading
Student challenges to degree classification, and examiners’ academic freedom – redux
No sooner had I published yesterday's post on student challenges to degree classification, and examiners’ academic freedom, than Afua Hirsh blogged that it's not just law students who are Continue Reading
Student challenges to degree classification, and examiners’ academic freedom
Some time ago, I blogged about the question of whether a low mark is a breach of contract. A little while ago, in a gallimaufry (omnibus) post, I briefly returned to this issue. The context was a US Continue Reading
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