Graduate sues university, gets £60K over 'useless' degree | EduCeleb
Agency Report
3rd June 2019
A graduate identified as Pok Wong who sued her University for misleading her over her useless degree and has received a £60,000 out-of-court settlement.
Pok Wong graduated with a First Class in International Business Strategy from Anglia Ruskin University in 2013.
But she claimed the university “exaggerated the prospects of a career” and sued them for false advertising.”
A spokesperson for Anglia Ruskin University said the settlement was agreed with their insurer’s solicitors, and they did not support it.
Wong, also known as Fiona, said claims made in the university’s prospectus were untrue.
She told the BBC in 2018 thus,
“They think we’re international students [and] we come here to pay our money for a piece of paper, for the degree.
“But actually we care about the quality, we care about how much we could learn.
“They exaggerated the prospects of a career studying with them, and also they exaggerate how connected they are.”
Last year, the County Court of Central London ruled in the university’s favour and ordered Ms Wong to pay £13,700 of Anglia Ruskin’s legal costs.
But the university’s insurers wrote to the former student, offering to settle her £15,000 claim, plus the payment of her legal costs.
An Anglia Ruskin University spokesman said Ms Wong’s litigation “has been rejected numerous times and has never been upheld”.
They said they did not support their insurer’s solicitors decision, adding: “We consider that they acted negligently and against the university’s interests.”
But Ms Wong wrote on Facebook that, despite the university denying any wrongdoing, “the payout is a proven victory”.