4.7 At the meeting, held on 6 September 1993, the Director informed the author that he had until the end of October 1993 to sit the remaining examinations. The author again said nothing about having suffered from discrimination. By 16 September 1993 a draft timetable had been prepared and the author was invited to discuss it. However, he refused to do so. He was subsequently formally invited to sit the examinations. In response he called in sick and did not turn up on the examination dates. 4.8 On 24 September 1993, there was a meeting of the NPA medico-social team where it was noted that the author's teachers considered him perfectly capable of achieving good results, but that there were doubts about the reasons he had given for his absence. No reference was made to his colour or ethnic background. 4.9 In December 1993, the Examining Board decided to propose to the Director of the NPA that the author's enrolment be terminated as of 1 March 1994. The Director gave the author notice of his dismissal on 26 January 1994, to which the author's representative replied by letters of 18 February 1994 and 24 March 1994. Despite the representative's request that the author be given another chance, he was released from service as of 1 October 1994. 4.10 The author lodged an objection to his dismissal on 5 August 1994. He alleged that his poor grades and frequent absence were merely a consequence of the way he had been treated by the teaching staff at the NPA. He also maintained that the Minister had wrongly overlooked the above-mentioned recommendation 4 of the Boekraad Committee in his case. At the hearing, held on 26 September 1994 as part of the objection procedure, the author presented examples intended to demonstrate the bias he had encountered from teachers: The fact that the pass mark for "training sessions" was not allowed to count for the following year; The inclusion of the results achieved at the afternoon session in the grade for Statistics, in spite of an alleged agreement to the contrary; The fact that the second opinion on the author's Psychology examination given by a member of staff of the Free University of Amsterdam was ignored; The fact that other students were allegedly later given pass marks after discussion of their case, whereas the author was not; The fact that Law graduates had actually failed the Statistics examination, but were nevertheless allegedly given pass marks. However, these examples had nothing to do with discrimination.