University ordered to pay BD123,000 in compensation to 14 students

After seven years of legal proceedings, the High Court of Appeal ordered a local university to pay BD123,000 to 14 Kuwaiti PhD students for the damages they suffered after their education programme was suspended by the Higher Education Council under the pretext that the university had to rectify several violations.

The details of this case date back to 2007 when the Kuwaiti students were given the green light to join the university in the Kingdom after receiving confirmation that its programmes were approved by the Higher Education Council.  However, after completing the enrolment procedures and successfully passing the programme’s 14 subjects, which costed each of them BD840 for each subject, they were told that the university was suspended by a decision of the Higher Education Council for repeated violations.

The students filed a lawsuit against the university for enrolling them and collecting the enrolment fees, while disregarding the Higher Education Council’s decision to not accept any students. Additionally, the university didn’t allow the students to graduate, despite passing all the subjects and other requirements. However, the High Court of Appeal announced its verdict, after the case was deliberated by several courts and the university appealed against the compensation order that was previously issued.