Petition · past parliament

Make universities refund some tuition if materials aren’t supplied during covid

Rejected 13 signatures

What the petition asks

Force universities to refund tuition if they insist on holding exams without supplying the relevant teaching materials to students who have paid their fees on the basis that materials are supplied in hard copy
My class and I to pay £17k in fees to my university and they are refusing to either reduce fees or reimburse us if we buy the books ourselves so we can the exams and they won’t send the books out even though they admit they are at the university waiting to be collected.

They want us to sit exams with no access to online permitted materials and the permitted materials are at the uni waiting to be collected. Instead we should buy them ourselves (£1000 per book) or ask old students

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

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You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

Timeline

20 May 2020 Petition opened for signatures
28 May 2020 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 13
Status Rejected
Rejected 28 May 2020

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.