Furious students have demanded that rent for university accommodation be axed until access to campuses and face-to-face teaching are restored. Signs of rapidly growing anger come after ministers announced that lectures and classes would move online for most until at least the end of February. The move was in response to fears over a new, more transmissible strain of Covid-19. But it has also sparked concerns that individuals could be left liable to pay for accommodate they cannot use. Now the Union of Scottish Student Tenants Unions (USSTU) is launching a campaign aimed at ensuring higher education institutions and ministers cancel rent for those in university accommodation while campus access is restricted.