‘They feel cheated,’ say lawyers hoping to trigger an avalanche of compensation claims against universities from students with courses disrupted by the pandemic and lecturer strikes 🔎 Big Read by poppyeh
The students’ lawyers say a green light from the High Court would also have wider ramifications and help “address the power imbalance between those affected and the universities”.
Students hoping to take them the universities court argue that while private schools and other businesses gave clients discounts as an acknowledgment of disrupted service during the pandemic, universities continued to add to their coffers by charging usual tuition fees. Ms Maurin meanwhile describes herself as “super in debt” from her time at university and questions why. “I don’t feel like I have the skills that I was promised,” she says.
“I was sent home, had barely any tutor time and was basically left to fend for myself when it came to having an education. I went to university to learn, not just to get a grade at the end of the three years,” she says. “You are obliged if you promote your university in that way to provide in-person teaching and access to facilities. Yes there might be circumstances where it might not be possible to do that in the same way, but then you shouldn’t be charging the same amount.”
“I’m from a council house up north, and to get to the Courtauld, the first generation into university, well – I worked really hard,” she says.
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