The Board of Examiners decided that the applicant did not satisfy the educational requirement. The applicant believed that she was qualified because she had obtained a vocational training from the Centre d’Ecriture et de Communication (“the Centreâ€), and that supportive remarks made about this by her supervisor and work colleagues confirmed her belief. The Centre was not a university or equivalent institution in the French educational system, and the applicant had not “five years of continuous service with the United Nations Secretariat by 31 December 1989â€. These prerequisites did not...