http://www.altnation.com/forums Where the great thinkers and great unwashed congregate. en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:54:14 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.altnation.com/forums/images/themes/titanium/misc/rss.jpg http://www.altnation.com/forums http://www.altnation.com/forums/students/148149-help-university-withdrew-me-course.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:39:25 GMT Hello. I have a quick question that I would appreciate some help with if you would be so kind, my girlfriend and I are totally devastated about what has happened to her. ... Hello.

I have a quick question that I would appreciate some help with if you would be so kind, my girlfriend and I are totally devastated about what has happened to her.

My girlfriend has just had her place at University withdrawn after the University allowing her to attend for 2 months in the knowledge that she has a fiscal fine on her for shoplifting(first and last offence). She informed the University by phone and by email when she was offered her place, however the University say they have no record of the email (we do have proof of her contacting the Uni via a telephone bill), despite this she also informed them on enrolment day and was allowed to attend for 2 months before withdrawing her place. The reason the University are using to withdraw her place is that she did not disclose the offence to them when she had her interview and on the declaration of criminal offences form. She did not disclose the offence at interview because she had not been in receipt of the letter outlining the outcome of the case at the time of interview, surely she would be prejudicing herself if she made any statement at the time as it is possible no charges were brought against her for various reasons, eg first offence, the shop not proceeding with charges etc.

Please help, we are desperate for something to use to defend herself. The University kicked her out and refused her any right of appeal. I believe that as they allowed her to attend for 2 months, apparently waiting on registration to the SSSC and was informed that this was the only problem she may have, that this was implied admission on the course and she should be given the same rights as any other student, ie the right of appeal, the right to be represented etc.

Can they use this as a justifiable reason, even though they allowed her to attend for 2 months (she was on the class register), and told her the only issue they had would be if the SSSC would allow her to be registered. We contacted the SSSC on Friday last week and they informed us they had told the university that they had no issue with my girlfriend being registered as she had not broken any conduct rules (the uni advised the sssc to put her application to the conduct committee). The only thing the SSSC were waiting on was Disclosure coming back with nothing other than the fiscal fine on it. Disclosure said that they were in the process of confirming the shoplifting fine from the court and police station and as she had already had an enhanced disclosure done the previous year they were nearly complete and should only be a matter of 2 weeks.

It appears to me on the face of it that the University was hoping that she would not be allowed to be registered, and this would be a reason not to allow her to enrol, however the SSSC have confirmed that she would be allowed to register as she did not break any conduct rules, that this lead on to the university going back on what it had told my girlfriend and revoked her place due to a technicality that she was not in a position to admit or deny at the time because she was not in receipt of the fiscal fine.

This has all been carried out in my view by the senior lecturer of the course who is determined my girlfriend will not get on the course due to some personality issue. I believe she is not happy that we defended my girlfriend against false accusations made by her to the SSSC (which they have accepted) and that is the reason why they have changed their mind at this late stage. This is all done from a social worker who is meant to be in the care sector. I realise that this is just my opinion, however it is hard not to think like this given the facts.


Any help you could offer we would be most desperately grateful.

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