Damages for Warwick student denied extension due to cancer

A assemblage has agreed to wage £12,000 successful damages to a pupil with precocious cancer, aft it initially rejected an hold to her studies, a national says.

International postgraduate movie and tv studies student, Riham Sheble, was receiving attraction for a uncommon and assertive signifier of cancer.

She said the University of Warwick's determination not to assistance her much clip to survey was "utterly unjust".

The assemblage said it had got it incorrect and worked to enactment it right.

The determination was reversed and the assemblage wrote to Ms Sheble to connection its "sincere apologies".

Ms Sheble, who is Egyptian, was diagnosed successful February 2021 and asked for an hold to her studies successful April 2022.

She said: "These battles were imposed connected maine astatine a clip erstwhile I was contending with decease and astatine warfare with my ain body.

"I was forced to combat connected truthful galore fronts. It was exhausting."

A run was started successful June past twelvemonth betwixt URBC, Warwick University and College Union and Warwick students' national officers, who had collectively made representations connected Ms Sheble's behalf.

An probe was carried retired into a ailment "made by a pupil relating to however the assemblage had processed a request" to widen their play of registration, a spokesperson astatine Warwick said.

They added: "That probe recovered that we could person shown greater flexibility successful this case. We accepted this decision and recognised we had got this wrong."

The spokesperson added it wrote to the Home Office connected the student's behalf "asking for her parent to beryllium allowed to travel into the UK to enactment her, which was successful".

They said: "We besides felt it was the close happening to bash to marque a outgo to the pupil alternatively than contention it done a perchance lengthy complaints process, fixed the unsocial circumstances progressive successful this case."

Warwick UCU and the Unis Resist Border Controls (URBC) run some said Ms Sheble had "won a important triumph for migrant students with disabilities successful the UK".

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