The Court of Appeal has upheld the April 2002 judgement in the case of racial discrimination brought against Oxford University by Nadeem Ahmed.
Ahmed had taken his claim that Oxford had discriminated against him on racial grounds to the Court of Appeal after he was ruled against by the County Court last April.
The judgement by the Court of Appeal on December 20, 2002, upheld Judge Playford's April 2002 ruling that there had at no time been any racial discrimination by the University, or any individual member of its staff, against Mr Ahmed.
Ahmed was not able to complete a masters degree in Medieval Arabic Philosophy at Oxford's Oriental Institute in 1999, after failing two separate exams. However, he claimed that the exams had been unfairly set and marked, as a ploy to justify expelling him from the University.
The University News Release highlighted how Oxford values the presence of, and contribution from, the very wide range of backgrounds and nationalities from which its members are drawn. Amongst its 16,000 students, the University currently has representatives of over 120 countries.
The Oxford Student would like to apologise for innacuracies in last week's article about Mr Ahmed's appeal.