Student Urinated In A Bottle During Exam

Student at a German university had to urinate in a bottle because exam supervisors wouldn't let him go to the toilet.

Overseers at the University of Freiburg in southwestern Germany told the 27-year-old, whose bladder control was impaired in an accident that left him on crutches, that he would be failed if he left the room during the exam.

None of the three supervisors would accompany the man to the toilet despite other students' protests.

Eventually one female student emptied her water bottle so the man could go to a corner of the room and relieve himself.

In a letter written on Wednesday and seen by Reuters, university deputy head Karl-Reinhard Volz apologised to the student, saying the supervisors' behaviour was completely unjustified and "lacking in any normal human sensitivity."