Petition · past parliament

Review of higher education fees for all students enrolled prior to COVID-19

Rejected 12 signatures

What the petition asks

Where higher education students have continued their courses online during the COVID-19 pandemic, fees for the disrupted period should be capped at that institution’s lowest advertised fee, as if it were an online course, or the institution’s cheapest location that the student had enrolled upon.
Many students across the country are enrolled on higher education courses that have switched to exclusively online delivery. Of those who have persisted with this switch, rather than defer, student experiences have varied considerably. Regardless of individual experiences, I believe strongly that for this period, all students should pay no more in fees than what they would have paid had they chosen an online delivery mode, or their institution’s cheapest location at which to enrol.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.

The Government sets the maximum universities can charge for tuition fees, but decisions about different rates of tuition fees set by universities are a matter for indiviudal universities. It is also not clear how your proposal would work for universities that only have one rate of tuition fees.

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Timeline

28 Feb 2021 Petition opened for signatures
13 Apr 2021 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 12
Status Rejected
Rejected 13 Apr 2021

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