Petition · past parliament

Reduce university fees to students for the year 2020-2021 due to COVID

Rejected 17 signatures

What the petition asks

The Government should refund partial tuition fees to UK university students during the online teaching period of 2020-21 due to Covid 19. The online lectures are not equal to face to face lectures. Students are paying full tuition fees for online lectures and are not getting the full uni experience.
As students, we have to pay back the loans we have taken out for university. The year of 2020-21 we are paying the full fee for only online teaching during the pandemic. This is affecting all university students to not to achieve their best outcome.

We need Parliament to come to an agreement to help students to be able to get in with university and get jobs to help pay back loans and their taxes. Help the students help you.

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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Timeline

5 Jan 2021 Petition opened for signatures
8 Jan 2021 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 17
Status Rejected
Rejected 8 Jan 2021

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