Forewarned is forearmed
My PhD employment was cancelled without notice by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in January 2012. More then two years I have been trying to find out what rights in fact a PhD student has at SLU.
First, this issue was raised before the Swedish HigherEducation Authority. After one year of sluggish correspondence the answer was:
foreign PhD student has no rights. (The details will be posted later.)
Then the matter was brought before the Uppsala District Court.
The court proceeded with no hurry for the next one year but recently declared
that is finally ready to make a decision. Hearings will be open for public. Since there
will be a lot of useful information, which SLU usually never discloses, it
might be useful for PhD student to hear it by themselves. Arm yourself with
knowledge!
For example, did you know that:
- PhD position is a temporal employment (at least for the foreigners)
- Being a temporal employment it can be cancelled (or expired and not renewed) at any moment
- SLU is not obligated to inform a temporal employee about termination of his employment
- An appeal against termination of the temporal employment can be done only within two weeks
- Neither a supervisor nor SLU have any formal obligations before a student
- A person can be enrolled into studies without him knowing about it
- SLU is not obligated to present evidences; its word is beyond doubts
- Swedish law and local SLU regulations are written to deceive those gullible idealists who really believe that they might have rights
It is only a part of the questions that will be discussed at
the court dispute.
The hearings will take place on Monday,
March 24th,
2014 at 9:00 am
Room 3, Courtrooms, floor 1
Kungsgatan 49, Uppsala District Court
Languages: English / Swedish
Information about any changes in the schedule will be posted
here
March 25, 2014
The decision of the Uppsala District Court will be announced
on April 14th, 2014 and posted here on receipt. On April 16th I was informed that the decision will be made on April 28th, 2014.
Monetary claims in total were: 2822000 SEK
All documents of the litigation will be posted as a manual for the next PhD students who dare to fight for their rights. So they will not make my mistakes.
The only thing I want to say right now is about the student
union(s) and so called student ombudsman. From my point of view it was their direct
responsibility to be on the court hearings. They did not come. Now, my dear PhD
students, you can see clear that student ombudsman and student union are only
simulacra. Never trust them and never hope that they can help you.
It's May 3rd. Any decision made?
ReplyDeleteSorry! Terrible events in Ukraine pushed aside all the personal problems:
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Shortly: the Uppsala district Court dismissed all charges. I am going to appeal this decision.
Also it looks like SLU rector using the corrupted officer from the Migration Board made an attempt to extradite me from the country. She failed. I am going to bring this case on the light too.
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ReplyDeleteThe PhD student ombudsman in Uppsala Student Union is only a simulacra ! He is afraid of annoying professors and therefore cannot really stand on student's side, but just pretend to help.
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