MINISTERS are under increasing pressure to compensate university students for the educational and financial losses forced on them during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Campaigners spoke of students being “pushed to the brink” by the government’s mishandling of the crisis, as opposition MPs sought a rapid review with the power to recommend compensation.
The Department for Education has confirmed that students in England will not be allowed to return to in-person lessons before May 17, by which time most courses will have already finished.
Responding to an urgent question today, Universities Minister Michelle Donelan told the Commons that nearly a quarter of students – some half a million – were yet to return to their term-time accommodation.