can my wife claim defonation of character

[whiteghost]

my wife is at uni and some people in her class have braught a claim of racial abuse against the lecturer who has now been sacked. My wife has now been told by the new lecturer that bacause of what has happened all in the cohort will be tarnished by what has happened can my wife make a claim against the uni if this happens

[dot.hawkes]

sounds a load of rubbish to me, what kind of uni is she at?

[PrinceRainie]

No.

[PrinceRainie]

The new lecturer is probably a little nervous about putting a step wrong.
In this over politically correct world it is all too easy for people to complain and get others into trouble.
You could sing bah bah black sheep in a primary school, then get sacked.......what is the world coming too?

[pingping]

As someone who works in a uni, I can't see how this could happen. to me it sounds like empty threats from a scared new lecturer.

All exams / assessed work are written and marked anyonmously, so it would be impossible to identify 'troublesome' students over any one else who took the course. If the lecturer was sacked, then there was obviously strong, proveable evidence that they were being rascist, otherwise they uni couldn't get rid of them.

all exam papers etc are also marked by a combination of internal and external assessors (the externals will never have come into contact with the students) so it should be a fair assessment process.

If any of the students have reason to doubt their results, then there is usually an appeals process in place to deal with complaints. although i very much doubt it should come to this as universities are v. careful not to get tangled in any lawsuits.

[taperface]

I agree with all the above answers, but defamation of character isn't an avenue to travel down. I can't believe this problem has really happened!