Thanks for taking time to read my post.

In 2016 I was a student at Oxford Brookes University on the ACCA degree programme upon completion of which I would have been awarded a BSc in Applied Accounting.

As part of the degree I was required to submit a Research and Analysis Project (RAP) based on pre selected areas of interest related to business and accounting.

The degree grade given is awarded according to the % pass marks achieved in the ACCA exams combined with the pass mark awarded to the RAP.

As I had achieved high % pass marks in the relevant ACCA exams obtaining just a simple pass grade in the RAP would have meant a degree of First Class with Honours being awarded to me by Oxford Brookes and I was very proud of this and highly looking forward to getting such a prestigious degree after years of studying part time and self funding my studies. Indeed I would have been the first male in 3 generations of my family to get a degree.

Having followed the recent attempts of dilution of degrees by Universities in the press and wider area I am now concerned I was the victim of an unfair decision of my RAP project which was failed in its entirety solely on the unproven and untrue basis I had plagiarised some content which I found astonishing given that I had followed the guidelines to highlight the authors and owners of all the content used and the company I had based my RAP on was a business I really wanted to focus on as the subject matter was very useful to me so I spent my time undertaking research and analysis ethically and honestly.

As part of the degree project I also had to sign with an ACCA/OBU approved paid mentor who would provide mentorship to me in the completion of my Research and Analysis Project without which no student can complete the RAP as the Project has to be presented to the mentor prior to submission.

The mentor was also surprised at the charge of Plagiarism and she advised me to appeal however to make matters worse I did not receive an official letter to challenge the decision until after I had missed the 7 day deadline to challenge or explain what I had done. Instead I received an email from the same person who decided I had plagiarised that my project had failed and had been rejected.

In my gullibility I resigned to the fact that I could not challenge the University and had also missed the deadline but since this has happened to me I have read about similar cases about Degree Dilution in the media and I strongly feel that I also am a victim of Degree Dilution. 

I have been in contact with a law firm that specialises in claims against unfair decisions by Universities and they are prepared to take on the case to challenge this unfair and prejudicial decision by Oxford Brookes University however I am short of the funding amount required to undertake legal action.

Thanks for taking your valuable time to read my claim of injustice which may hopefully lead to justice for me.