August 16, 2002

British University Settles Law Student's Suit; Mexican Scholar Disputes Toll in '68 Massacre

A British student who sued his university over the quality of his education scooped up a $47,000 settlement last month.

Michael J. Austen, a former law student at the University of Wolverhampton, in central England, got the award in an out-of-court settlement. Mr. Austen, a 54-year-old former airline pilot, said he had been duped by a promotional CD-ROM that featured a student professing to have turned down Oxford and Cambridge to go to Wolverhampton. In terms of teaching quality,

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