STUDENTS are willing to take Ruskin College to court over the ‘absolute shambles’ they have faced trying to get their degree results.

Aaron Miles claims he is one of dozens from ‘almost every course’ who have endured months of uncertainty since they took their final exams. The 22-year-old said the college told BA Social and Political Studies students that their results would be delayed for ‘a small amount of time’ in July, adding: “As it turns out, the results in question have never arrived and we fear they never will. This is the same for most of the students who left in 2019.”

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Ruskin College, Headington. Picture: Google Maps

A letter sent to Mr Miles on July 26 by the college said: “Part of the delay is caused by the resignation of the external examiner who to needs to be present at the board to ratify the grades.”

The letter said the college was ‘working closely’ with the Open University and any delay would be ‘kept to a minimum’.

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Mr Miles, from Chipping Norton, said there has been no further updates, adding: “Two of the class are now on the verge of not being accepted for their masters degrees, myself included."

He called the college an 'absolute shambles' and said a group of students were now prepared to take legal action against the Headington college and the Open University.

He said: “We feel as if the three years of work we have put into this degree have been wasted and the student debt we have gathered is all for nothing."

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It is the latest in a long string of controversies for the troubled college, which has faced mass walkouts by staff and accusations of unsafe campus security in recent months. Last week former warden Kieron Winters hit out at the college over an alleged falsification of records in the aftermath of student Nuno Cardoso’s arrest and subsequent death in police custody two years ago. The college has completely denied this.

Mr Miles said things had got ‘steadily worse’ since he started in 2016 and he had lost several tutors during his time there, one being Dr Lee Humber, who was sacked in July amid accusations from the University College Union that he had been ‘victimised’ due to his position as a trade union rep, which the college has denied.

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Last month the entire social work department of Ruskin College also resigned after four tutors were made redundant.

A statement from Ruskin College said a ‘small number’ of students’ final results had been delayed after the resignation of external examiners appointed by the course's validating organisation – the Open University.

It added: “New examiners have now been appointed and final results will be available shortly.

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"We have not been made aware of any students whose places on masters courses have been affected by delays to marks; in this circumstance we would expect to be contacted by the relevant institution whereby this matter could easily be resolved.

"Our students are our primary concern and we have been in regular contact with them over the summer. We will continue to support them moving forward.”

The Open University was contacted but did not respond.