Solicitors Confirm University of Wales Lampeter Facing Closure

Hard Evidence University of Sleaze Lampeter No Longer A Charity
(As defined by the Charity Act 2006)

Failure to Pass ‘Public Benefit Test’

• Staff discrimination against disadvantaged supported by senior management.
• Complainers and disadvantaged face fabricated accusations of plagiarism.
• Deliberate sex discrinination against women.
• Solicitors (Eversheds) claim fabricated accusation of malicious harrassment justified.
• Solicitors (Eversheds) act like bully boys to threaten students who complain
• Higher Education Funding Council for Wales powerless to intervene.
• Quality Assurance Agency has no locus in the matters.
• Regulation of Welsh Universitites in the interests of students to be undertaken by the Charity Commission.

Fabricated Accusations of Plagiarsim Used to Weed Out the Disadvantaged
The Charity Commission has been informed that there is a mountain of hard evidence in support of the claim that the University of Wales Lampeter is actively discriminating against students who complain, or from disadvantaged backgrounds and circumstances by means of stitching them up with fabricated allegations of plagiarism.

Deliberate Sex Discrimination
In addition there is sex discrimination by setting of assignments with so little time to complete them that it deliberately discriminates against women in general and single mothers in particular. Students complaining about these issues have been ridiculed, and met with a tirade about being able to work 60 hours a week. The right to a family life, the impact on women as the mainstay in running a home, and the fact it exceeds the EU directive of a maximum 48 hour working week like every other complaint is ridiculed. This humiliating treatment is another tactic to get rid of disadvantaged low earners and the resulting 73% drop out rate for some courses is a scandalous waste of public money.

Complaints Procedures Deliberately Obstructed and Perverted
Complaints procedures are perverted and obstructed as a matter of routine, time limits for responses are deliberately ignored. documents are fabricated and destroyed as necessary to make sure no student is going to get a fair hearing. Forget about the Office of the Independant Adjudicator for Higher Education they are 4/5ths owned by the universities and their rulings are unenforceable.

Solicitors Claim False Accusation of Malicious Harrassment Justified
Solicitors Eversheds acting for Prof David Austin and in our opinion in a conflict of interest with the university, admitted his the accusation of malicious harrassment was totally without foundation but was justified for complaining that complaints procedures had not been complied with.

HEFCW Part of the Cover Up
HEFCW the Higher Education Funding Council For Wales in breach of its public duty, went to great lengths to prove it had no powers of intervention on issues of financial mismanagement or charity law in order to conceal the corruption against the disadvantaged that has gone on inside Lampeter.

Head of Welsh QAA Says They Have No Locus in These Matters
The Head of the Welsh QAA has stated that the QAA has no locus in these matters which means the Charity Commission will need to regulate and investigate university’s conduct as well as finance to ensure compliance with charity law.

Lampeter’s Solicitors Eversheds Confirm Closure
Times Higher Education quoted John Boardman head of the education sector group at commercial law firm Eversheds who also advise Lampeter, as saying. ‘Under the “public benefit test” introduced under the Charities Act 2006 in England and Wales, universities must show that people on low incomes benefit from their activities’. The chances of Lampeter doing that are nonexistent.

Lampeter and Charity a Contradiction in Terms
The University of Wales Lampeter and the Charity Act 2006 are clearly a contradiction in terms, as Lampeter only benefits corrupt officers and staff. The Charity Commission has stated they have the power to remove charitable status when institutions cease to become charitable.

Eversheds Act Like Bully Boys to Conceal Corruption
What makes things worse is the Cardiff branch of Eversheds who advise Lampeter have known about the problem for years. In our opinion they have failed to inform the University Council of the conduct of corrupt officers and staff, because they thought they could get away with behaving like bully boys threatening legal action and high court injunctions to make it go away.

Corrupt Vice Chancellor and Secretary and Academic Registrar
Eversheds have acted for Prof. David Austin issuing threats of legal action on his behalf with the unlawful use of charity funds to conceal his corruption, when they should have advised the University Council to sack him. However, the Vice Chancellor Prof Robert Pearce who also made threats of legal action and the Academic Registrar and Secretary Dr Thomas Roderick have colluded with Eversheds to conceal from the Council what was really going on. We call that a conflict of interest that is going to result in a serious loss to the university for which they are accountable under charity law.