Student on gun charge
A University of Bath student has appeared in court charged with offering money and threatening his professor with a replica gun to try to ensure he did not fail his degree course.
Yang Li, 26, of Wellsway, Bath faces two charges relating to an incident at the Claverton Down campus on November 23 of this year.
It is alleged that he offered £5,000 to his professor in a bid to pass his degree and that he had an imitation pistol which he used to threaten him with.
He appeared at Bristol Crown Court last Thursday for a preliminary hearing, was remanded in custody and is due in court again in February.
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A University of Bath spokesman said: "We are assisting Avon and Somerset Police with their ongoing inquires in relation to this case. The student involved has been immediately suspended from his studies and we will be monitoring the progress of the criminal proceedings."
Comments
by peteinblack
Friday, December 21 2012, 9:28AM
“Well, the Government keeps telling us that students are now paying customers - we all know that 'the customer is always right' - and David Willetts says that now students are paying £9,000, university lecturers must give them what they want, so perhaps they should all be awarded straight As or 1st Class degrees.
Seriously, in the current regime in Higher Education, it is becoming impossible to maintain academic standards; the pressure (from students, their parents, and university managers concerned to improve league table posiitons and maximise revenue streams) on Lecturers to award high grades, even to weak students, is intolerable: 'Give me a good degree for my £9,000 per annum, or I'll sue you, or maybe even shoot you.'
Introducing 'market forces' into the university system is not raising standards, it is leading to grade inflation and dumbing down, because academics are under so much pressure to give high grades; their jobs depend upon it.
What a crazy system!”