The OIA Pathfinder Project Continued…
there is the option of a complaint to the OIA who I think will also start to name and shame offending universities. As a student, I will also be in a better position to pursue a complaint under the Charity Act 2006 concerning its merged partner.
Lampeter University Council has been given a clear choice of either investigating this matter or using the fact I owe them money to pursue a petition for bankruptcy to conceal the corruption of its officers and staff. This reinforces my belief that there has been as corporate concealment of corruption that will be the basis of a forthcoming complaint to the Charity Commission.
The University Council has made an offer of settlement that includes me giving up my right to complain to a number of interested parties including Trinity College, the Welsh Assembly and the QAA. What is disturbing is that they also want me to give up my right to complain to the OIA, this is also matched with a thinly disguised threat of legal action if I make any complaint under the Students Complaints Scheme (Higher Education Act 2004) concerning my admission to Trinity College.
Given that I have already submitted what Lampeter considers to be defamatory material to both UCAS and Trinity College, I assume that similar threats will apply to them for circulating defamatory material simply by dealing with my application. It seems that Lampeter has refused to verify the documents I have sent to Trinity College for fear of being caught out. I fail to see how any student can exercise their rights under the above legislation or to higher education with this sort of behaviour from a public funded body and charity company. Clearly, this is an attempt to use bullyboy tactics to subvert the admissions process and the rights of students to complain to the OIA despite the fact we have privilege under the above Act to do so.
How do I apply to Trinity College without telling the truth about what happened at Lampeter? I would be grateful if you could explain where the Welsh Assembly stands on this issue, bearing in mind your past comments that they wish to bring openness and transparency to the students’ complaints process. It seems that the Welsh Assembly are saying one thing and Universities are resorting to this sort of behaviour to do another with what I consider to be the fraudulent use of charity funds and an abuse of public office. Whether or not this is true or not will be a matter for the Charity Commission to decide, what is certain is that these issues will not go away. In that respect, Lampeter’s actions are clearly a sign of desperation for fear of a Charity Commission inquiry affecting their merger with Trinity College.
I have no doubt that on this occasion Lampeter will carry out their threat of bankruptcy instead of playing their usual mind games by not turning up for the hearing. This is in keeping with stitching students up with false allegations of plagiarism, intimating them in examinations, making fabricated allegations of malicious harassment, deliberately perverting the students’ complaints scheme etc. I think the Welsh Assembly should investigate the suicide risk of Welsh students’ who are subject to this behaviour from a so-called university and the obvious failure of regulation.
