Judge does not think hay fever student is an excuse
A first-year student from Stenden University of Applied Sciences did not get enough credits and was expelled from his study program. Not fair, says the student, because he suffered from hay fever.
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The first-year student took the chemistry course at Stenden, but failed a few courses and received a binding study advice: he had to leave. The student went to court.
He had had surgery on his hand and needed to recover, he argued. But the university of applied sciences found that no excuse. When his hand was healed again, the student did not perform well either: he got three fail marks.
Medication
And my hay fever then, the student wanted to know, because he was also bothered by it. The training did not want to hear about it. There are quite a few students with hay fever and you can just take medicine.
Dat say the judges of the Higher Education Appeals Tribunal as well. The student has not made it plausible that his health problems hindered his studies and, moreover, his plea came too late. He only apologized when the program informed him that he would receive binding study advice.
