US student sues Swedish college for tuition fees

"An American mathematics student has sued a Swedish university for rejecting her calls to repay tuition fees after she slammed course organizers for low quality of teaching and such poor logistics that students had to sit on the floor." continues The Local.se

Students studying in Sweden. 
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Connie Dickinson came to Sweden to study mathematics at Mälardalen University (Mälardalens högskola), a course which was later rapped for sub-standard teaching.

After two years of studies, she told the college in 2013 to return her tuition fees of 183,000 kronor (then $28,000) after the Swedish Higher Education Authority (Universitetskanslersämbetet) criticized the specific mathematics and statistics course as not reaching an appropriate standard.

Mälardalen University has campuses in the central Swedish towns of Västerås and Eskilstuna. The school has consistently refused to refund the money on the basis that the request is not supported by Swedish law.

“Discontent is subjective,” the university head of finance Björn Magnusson told Swedish Radio in 2013.

The disgruntled student, meanwhile, has complained that the teacher simply handed out some papers and then left, and seemed to speak neither Swedish nor English. She has also claimed that there was a lack of chairs, forcing some of her classmates to sit on the floor.
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Source: The Local.se