Having lost her mum at a young age she was brought up in South India by her father, before studying for two masters degrees in her home country.

“I am the first person in my family to come abroad for studies and I hail from an underprivileged background, I made immense sacrifices to come and study at Oxford.”

During her fourth year, she had an assessment, in which two different assessors failed her, saying her Shakespeare research did not have scope for PhD level.

She has disputed the English Faculty’s decision and has taken them through an appeals process, but has been unsuccessful.

“I believe that the university’s strategy is to force me to wade through endless appeals and complaints procedures in the hope that I will eventually give up and go.”

The university confirmed the appeals process has concluded.