Submitted on Saturday 21st March 2020
Rejected on Friday 24th April 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Reduce the Third Tuition Fee payment for the academic year 2019/2020
I believe the Tuition Fee for the Third semester of 2019/2020 should be reduced as Covid-19 has meant we are unable to attend university. Scheduled to be paid at around the start of May, we will be absent for most if not all of the final semester so being asked to pay the full fee for it is unjust.
As is implied in the name, a ‘Tuition Fee’ is paid to our university to cover the cost of our tuition. Student debt has long been a crippling problem and it seems morally wrongful that we have to pay for full tuition when we will be absent and using pre-created Learning Packs. Without underestimating the time lecturers must have to put into ‘Learning Pack’ creation, we will eventually be left footing the massive bill of a full tuition experience when this is far from what we will receive.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Arrangements for teaching and charging tuition fees are a matter for individual universities, not the Government or Parliament.
We have published a petition calling on the Government to reimburse all students of this year’s fees due to strikes and COVID-19, which you might like to sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302855
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