University of Sunderland has wasted my life

If i start telling you my story, TSR will decline my post. I replied to UOS over here about their long list of mismanagement but TSR declined my post. It seems like TSR is also biased to towards University. Please let me know any Good lawyer or just tell me straight away if I am wasting my time here.

You should probably just speak to a lawyer who will advise you as to the strength of your case. Any high street lawyer should be competent to advise you.

Did you fail your masters? Or just not get the certificate in the end? It’s not very clear.

You should probably just speak to a lawyer who will advise you as to the strength of your case. Any high street lawyer should be competent to advise you.

Did you fail your masters? Or just not get the certificate in the end? It’s not very clear.

drink some decaf tea it eases the stress

I was just asking refer me if you know any lawyer. I need to know the reputation of the lawyer too. I can meet any lawyer but I need trust too.
Anyways, it looks like you are throwing salt on my wounds. I am not FAILED. My final year project started in March 2017 and it was about to end in September 2017 but University of Sunderland didnt respond well and wasted whole 2017. We made lot of complaints but they delayed. They still didnt clear us from masters because they didnt supervise us to finish our FYP. They wasted my years.

Are you looking for a lawyer in the UK, or one in your home country? There are reviews online that you can consult to see which lawyer would be most appropriate to your case.

Did you complete your final project and get a mark for it? If so, I don't understand why they are withholding your award.

Huge story short: they never fulfilled their promises to me and I never received Masters degree since 2017. Now I am completely done with them, and I asked for complete refund but they agreed to refund mw only GBP 700 out of GBP 2100 + RM 29000.
They delayed not only my course, my three other friends just because of their mismanagement. OIAHE never helped me in a right way, they are biased to helping University. Please anybody refer me to good lawyer so that I can file case against them. After the pandemic ends, I will be filing case with all the evidences I have.
Regards

I am not sure how much exactly you wish to claim for but you don't need an expensive lawyer to make a claim through the UK courts.

If your claim is for more than £10k then click here to make a claim online - there will be a small cost to you of several hundred pounds (varies depending on the size of the claim). That will be cheaper than hiring a lawyer.

If your claim is for less than £10k then click here to make a claim online.

I am surmising that English is not your first language. You will need to be very clear and precise when claiming - dates, names etc.

I have all the screenshots against University of Sunderland, their staff messages and their supervisor messages.

Okay, so it sounds like you have complaints against two staff members in particular for giving incorrect information and not supervising you properly. Have you made formal complaints to your universities? If you have, what was the outcome of that?

As for the refund, you need to know exactly why it was only £700, and what that amount corresponds to (i.e. was it a refund for your fees for the dissertation period or something else?). As they've given you a refund, I'm guessing that they are using that to justify not giving you your award. Have you asked about getting a PgDip instead (which you can get after doing 2 semesters of study but no dissertation)?

Agree I think you need to exhaust the complaints procedure at university of Sunderland to get a final written decision then you can take that to a lawyer.

They need to say why your dissertation was not marked and what can be done to fix it (which may be that it needs re doing, have they said why this can’t happen). I didn’t think there was a date cut when you are time barred from finishing?

Thank you very much for the help. Yes ENGLISH is not my first language, however, I speak English most of the time. There might be typo errors here just like the typo error I had in the title of this thread.
Anyways, my total fees is GBP 2100+ RM 29,000+. However University of Sunderland agreed to only refund me GBP 700.
Please tell me how can I use these links that you provided to make claims? How are they useful? Thank you very much once again. I appreciate your valuable reply

Ok, you are really making this hard for me. From what I can figure, you are owed, £2100 plus a further £4500 (coverting Malaysian Ringgit to GBP). This seems low for Internatlaion student fees for a Masters so I am guessing you have only paid the first or second installment and wish to claim that back?

You can make a claim by filling in the online form found HERE. Typically if a student has completed semester 1 and not started semester 2 then the fees for S2 are refunded. But if you have completed some or all of the modules in S1 then its harder to claim back. It seems you have some grounds because the uni paid back £700.

I have completed all the semesters except the final semester which they didnt fulfill. Without this final semester, all other semesters are worthless. I had paid all the fees already, nothing left to pay them. They didnt refund me GBP 700 yet because I requested FULL REFUND, what will I do that GBP 700 when other semesters cannot give me Masters degree?? All the course depends on this final semester to release the degree, but if they dont want to solve these issues, they should refund me all. I wont be receiving degree either way. They wasted my time, they should really return me the TIME, TIME is a valuable thing and they had wasted it, they must PAYBACK.

A masters is typically made up of 120-140 credits of taught modules plus a 40 or 60 credit project. In order to get onto the project part of the course, you will need to have passed the 120/140 credits of taught classes. I am guessing you have failed some of these taught modules and also failed the resits. if you have accumulated 90 credits then you will be awarded the Certificate. If you have accumulated 120/140 credits but fail the project you will be awarded the Diploma. Both the Certificate and Diploma are transferrable. Thus, you can apply for a similar masters programme at another uni and bank the credits you have accumulated.

I am not sure how many credits you have accumulated but if it's less than 90 then yes you will walk away without any qualification. All of this will be explained in the course handbook.

UK universities do not want to scam students out of their money. But if you have not passed the required credits then they cannot award you a qualification. Sorry.