This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Write-off a portion of student loans for students affected by the coronavirus
We would like the Government to write-off 1/6 of our student loan repayments, to take into account the lost second semester of the 19/20 academic year.
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Students graduating this year have missed a total of an entire semester’s worth of access to on-campus study materials and to in-person teaching due to Covid-19. Students are not receiving the level of education they were led to expect at the beginning of their degrees due to the complications brought by self-isolation. It is unreasonable, therefore, to ask for the same amount in repayments after our contractual agreements with our universities have been frustrated in this way.
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