A jobless graduate has sued her former college for the more than £40,000 she paid in tuition fees after she failed to find work.
Trina Thompson, 27, claims Monroe College in New York did not do enough to help her find employment.
She is seeking to recover the £42,000 she spent on getting her degree from the college in the Bronx.
Court papers showed that Miss Thompson claimed the college's career centre did not provide her with the right advice or tips on available jobs.
"They have not tried hard enough to help me," she wrote about the college in her lawsuit filed at the Bronx Supreme Court.
Her mother, Carol, said her daughter was "very angry at her situation" having "put all her faith" in her college.
Miss Thompson graduated with a bachelor's degree in information technology in April but has been unable to find work.
She claims she was sent three emails from the college with little job advice.
"I need a full-time job placement and that's what they said they were going to help me with and they didn't," said Miss Thompson.
"The IT career counsellor sent me about three emails saying 'oh I have this job you should apply.' That's it."
A spokesman for the university rejected the claim.
Gary Axelbank, a spokesman for Monroe College, said the lawsuit was completely without merit because the college does assist its graduates in finding employment.
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日前,美國(guó)一位失業(yè)的大學(xué)畢業(yè)生狀告大學(xué)母校,要求退還四萬(wàn)多英鎊學(xué)費(fèi)。
現(xiàn)年27歲的特瑞娜?湯普森稱,紐約門羅大學(xué)在幫助她就業(yè)方面所做的遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不夠。
她要索回自己在(門羅大學(xué))布朗克斯分校攻讀學(xué)位期間,花費(fèi)的四萬(wàn)二千英鎊學(xué)費(fèi)。
法院案卷表明,湯普森小姐稱門羅大學(xué)的就業(yè)中心沒(méi)有為她找工作提供正確的建議和指導(dǎo)。
她在向布朗克斯區(qū)高級(jí)法院遞交的訴狀中這樣寫到:“他們沒(méi)有盡力幫我。”
她的母親卡羅爾稱,女兒“對(duì)自己的境況非常惱怒”,原本她對(duì)自己的學(xué)?!笆中刨嚒?。
湯普森小姐今年4月畢業(yè),并獲得信息技術(shù)學(xué)士學(xué)位,但一直沒(méi)能找到工作。
她稱曾接到過(guò)校方的三封郵件,但基本沒(méi)有就業(yè)指導(dǎo)。
湯普森小姐說(shuō):“我需要一份全職工作,他們承諾過(guò)要幫助我,但他們并沒(méi)有做到。”
“信息技術(shù)專業(yè)的就業(yè)輔導(dǎo)員給我發(fā)過(guò)三封郵件,里面寫著‘噢,我覺(jué)得你應(yīng)該投投這個(gè)職位’,就沒(méi)其它的了?!?/font>
校方的一位發(fā)言人反駁了這些指控。
門羅大學(xué)發(fā)言人加里?艾克瑟班克稱,這樁控訴完全是無(wú)理取鬧,因?yàn)閷W(xué)校確實(shí)在幫助畢業(yè)生實(shí)現(xiàn)就業(yè)。
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