Student angered as University of Manchester forces him to repeat the year for missing one exam due to quarantine
The medical student missed just one exam because he came in contact with a covid case. He is now being forced to repeat an entire year by the University of Manchester.
Wenbin Guo, 22, was due to sit hi final Clinical Examination to complete Year 3 of his studies on the 7th of July, according to Manchester Evening News. The week before, he was contacted by the NHS and told to isolate because his housemate tested positive for covid.
He tried to convince the university to give him another opportunity to take his exam. Still, university staff did not budge. Guo would now be the only student in his year forced to repeat Year 3 all over again.
Retaking the exam would have been possible before the start of Year 4 or during it, that is what the student thought. Staff thought otherwise
In emails shared with the Manchester Evening News, Prof Felicity Stewart, Head of Undergraduate Medical Studies, said that retaking the exam during Year 4 would hinder the new studies. But resitting it the exam alone before the beginning of the year would not be fair.
Wenbin told MEN the decision has left him ‘angry and immensely disappointed’, as he was only following the legal rules, yet he is now unfairly punished for it.
“I’ve done nothing wrong and am justifiably angry that I’ve had such horrible consequences imposed upon me by an institution that I had trusted would be supportive.”
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