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Hi all, A letter from the ACT ombudsman arrived today. As I suspected, it found the University of Canberra was not at fault with my dispute with it, but in reality it could only investigate one of several complaints I had about the university. The one complaint it could investigate was why only one assessor marked my major assignment for the Freelance Writing Project. The ombudsman said: “the marking scheme for this unit did not require more than one assessor. Therefore, it was open to the University not to have a second assessor and I do not consider that this is a matter that merits further investigation.” Other subjects in the course had more than one assessor. The comments Professor Jennifer Webb made on my assignment, in both their relevancy and refutability, make me suspect that a second assessor would probably have given me a both a higher grade and more relevant and insightful comments. Most of the other aspects of my dispute come under the area of “academic disc...