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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，美國一位失業的大學畢業生狀告大學母校，要求退還四萬多英鎊學費。
現年27歲的特瑞娜?湯普森稱，紐約門羅大學在幫助她就業方面所做的遠遠不夠。
她要索回自己在（門羅大學）布朗克斯分校攻讀學位期間，花費的四萬二千英鎊學費。
法院案卷表明，湯普森小姐稱門羅大學的就業中心沒有為她找工作提供正確的建議和指導。
她在向布朗克斯區高級法院遞交的訴狀中這樣寫到：“他們沒有盡力幫我。”
她的母親卡羅爾稱，女兒“對自己的境況非常惱怒”，原本她對自己的學校“十分信賴”。
湯普森小姐今年4月畢業，并獲得信息技術學士學位，但一直沒能找到工作。
她稱曾接到過校方的三封郵件，但基本沒有就業指導。
湯普森小姐說：“我需要一份全職工作，他們承諾過要幫助我，但他們并沒有做到。”
“信息技術專業的就業輔導員給我發過三封郵件，里面寫著‘噢，我覺得你應該投投這個職位’，就沒其它的了。”
校方的一位發言人反駁了這些指控。
門羅大學發言人加里?艾克瑟班克稱，這樁控訴完全是無理取鬧，因為學校確實在幫助畢業生實現就業。
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