Rejected petition Refund 2020/21 Tuition Fees to All Students in UK Universities

The Covid-19 Pandemic has seen University Students sent home while still having to pay the £9,000 tuition fees. All while the majority of University Lectures take place within a Zoom call. This is leaving UK students worse off financially and they should get some kind of refund or compensation.

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Tuition Fees regardless of whether a pandemic is happening or not leaves every student with a hole in their pocket. Nobody should have to be thinking about their financial situation during a course they have passionately pursued. It is imperative that the Students of the UK get a refund for the academic year 2020/21 because they have been unable to utilise a University’s resources due to the pandemic. Therefore, it is unfair that they have been forced to pay up to £9,000 just for a Zoom call.

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You may wish to sign these petitions which call for similar actions:

Refund ALL University student tuition fees due to lack of quality in education:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/555516

Government subsidise this year's university tuition fees: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/552814

You may be interested to know that the Petitions Committee investigated the impact of Covid-19 on university students, after it received a large petition last year calling for students to have their fees reimbursed due to strikes and COVID-19.

Read the Committee's report: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5801/cmselect/cmpetitions/527/52702.htm

Read the Government's response to the report, including reaction from Petitions Committee Chair Catherine McKinnell MP: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/119066/Petitions-government-response-covid-19-university-students-19-21.

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Date submitted 4 March 2021
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