He's 39 and Unemployed —and Blames Oxford

Seventeen years later, Faiz Siddiqui is still peeved about a poor grade he got in university—so peeved, in fact, that he's suing his former school for $1.3 million. 

At the High Court in London on Tuesday, a lawyer described how Siddiqui's dream of becoming an international commercial lawyer was crushed when a poor grade in the Indian special subject of his modern history course at Oxford University meant that he received a low upper second-class degree in June 2000, rather than a first-class or high upper second, report the BBC and Guardian. (In the UK, degrees are ranked based on a student's average mark.) 

Siddiqui, 39, who is unemployed, is seeking $1.3 million in lost wages while blaming "inadequate" teaching "in what was anticipated to be his favored special subject," his lawyer says.

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