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Students from more than 50 universities are taking part in a rent strike in protest at how the pandemic has affected their studies.

Many courses have moved to remote learning which has caused some students to go back home.

With mental health also a big concern, the Higher Education regulator is calling for more financial and emotional support for students.

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  1. @Pluto60

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    😂😂😂😂❤🎉🎉🎉🫶🤝🙌👐👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🌳🕰️

  2. @tickler1

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    I get some of the situations are hard, but asking to get everything for free, welcome to Real life, there are millions more in worse situations, people still just get on with life, most student have part time jobs, why not full time jobs and study at night.

  3. @anguschoi9122

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    Students is right

  4. @MrCrazyvan25

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    Charging students for services not provided is theft! Shame, shame, shame!!!!

  5. @terryfong9110

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    University staff, teachers, government officials are receiving their paycheques unaffected. What about the student? They paid the full fee but received no support for the whole year. Is it fair?

  6. @user-ih6vs3eg3o

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    Uni isn’t worth it anymore just stem subjects are worth studying

  7. @sideridely

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    90% of students are cash cows

  8. @AlexAlex-yv6qu

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    Abet there rethinking going to uni nah ant the while rest of us who got a trade at 16 fresh out of school are making money but they can’t seem that bothered if there are getting pissed in a park which could make lockdown last longer

  9. @ddppo8065

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    It’s not only that we demand a refund because of getting online education instead of face-to-face. I am personally furious that lecturers don’t even try and make an effort to make these classes engaging. They just throw us into breakout rooms for 30min and that’s it. They are unprepared and unmotivated just as students are. But here’s the thing, they get paid the same amount for less effort and we pay the same amount for worse quality classes. One day I asked my personal tutor why we have so many pre recorded classes instead of live discussions, she told me that „teachers also have a life outside of Uni, they need to take care of their children and we need to think about their convenience too” EXCUSE ME, if there was no pandemic they would still have to drive to the Uni and teach a class whilst having to take care of their kids and they manage to do it. Also, in most European countries education is 10x cheaper or even free! And the quality is just as high, if not higher. UK is such a rich country, yet the gov can’t pay for educating people and even Erasmus is too expensive for them. Shite…

  10. @macchiatomachiato

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    why not protest AGAINST the lockdown and vaccinations not the fees

  11. @rayaeparker8973

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    The way we have been treated by our unis is a joke.
    I got bullied by a lecturer in front of the rest of my class, calling me stupid and unmotivated and lazy, because I have Aspergers and I was struggling with the online lecture. I'm confident that if I had been sat in one of our classrooms and it was a face-to-face he wouldn't have addressed me like that. "High quality learning" is a joke.

  12. @gabrielcarvalho6085

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    God help us all cuz we are all fucked in one way or another! Tired of this shitty situation impacting everyone and there is nothing we can do

  13. @irfankhan-wf1ob

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    International Student are charged NHS surcharge but forced to pay for private COVID-19 test when its time to go back home after completing their studies. They get no support form their Universities or NHS.

  14. @farahbatool7453

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    So painful

  15. @melinda2932

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    true. should have let them getting virtual degree and save on rent

  16. @ravirongwindi3450

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    In africa is even worse

  17. @Mariam-tz1xk

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    International students are the ones who suffered the most. We came all the way here just to be given powerpoints to read and suffer loneliness in our rooms without any friends or families.

  18. @bostonlincolnshire8745

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    Uni of Lincoln has sprawling campus now, with plosh student flats.
    BUT now those flats r being sold-off on Rightmove. Was Uni of Lincoln waay too greedy-YES!

  19. @bostonlincolnshire8745

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    Good on em. Too many older folk complainin abt students, yet these older ppl forget the Care staff – medics, physios, therapists treatin em were once students too. So if anything we must help students all we can and encourage them & tell Gov't wot we fink via Consultations/ M.Ps, etc.

  20. @morgandaniels4178

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    DEMAND REFUNDS!!!! YOU CANT LEARN PROPERLY WITH REMOTE LEARNING AND WE WILL LEARN THIS IN 20 YEARS TO COME WHEN THESE YOUNG ADULTS WILL BE INCAPABLE OF TAKING OVER IN JOBS. REFUND REFUND REFUND

  21. @southwest3369

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    Just a total waste of time British studying and education isn’t effective anymore we have to many people going to university studying pointless degrees we need people in STEM fields not more physiologists or fashion designers we need people who can be innovative and contribute to the British economy engineering’s architects business leaders.

  22. @laurissa8802

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    I'm not being funny but their is lack of support for most people I do agencies work and I have lost my job 3 times in the past year and I have 4 kids and debt to take care of. I wish I didn't have to pay my rent. Keep the rich RICH and the poor even poorer

  23. @halcyonneumann9815

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    I went to University under the premise i would be able to access professional equipment workshops and a library, I have not been able to access any of this, we deserve a refund. we are not getting the services we paid for therefore we deserve our money back.

  24. @notahotmess2539

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    I’m an estranged 3rd year student. I’ve had only online classes, my grades have dropped due to mental health, lost my job and so much more. How much is the Government going to let us suffer?

  25. @salma-ls6ck

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    i absolutely agree with the university students, i'm a GCSE student and it's really stupid for them to have them pay 9k a year for online lessons? just sitting down looking at lecture videos and slides and online lessons.

  26. @natalie1536

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    Cause this is really helpful during a pandemic.

  27. @jakewalker1586

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    Finally the universities are getting their just deserves from SJW after creating generations of them.

  28. @mathematics5573

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    Universities should either shut down dead until the pandemic dies down or run normally. and stopping messing students about.

  29. @alexbutton2878

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    Students are the worst in the country. Constantly got their hand out like we don’t get shit tons of free money given to us anyway. Never ever tell people I’m a student cause I hate being associated with these wet wipes

  30. @Brixham0Bird

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    I’ve only had on campus teaching TWICE since September. It’s not the same learning online, everyone I know at uni it’s struggling, it’s just not good enough.

  31. @stephanieiles6752

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    omg im with them im struggling so much i cant take it anymore

  32. @mumrouykcus3547

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    good on them

  33. @Jannah.sara1

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    I don’t enjoy my university. My mental health is continuously down. This country is destroying

  34. @Happy_Shopper

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    I'm on an arts course yet haven't been into the campus once. Been violated

  35. @lilacblue783

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    I'm quite confused about the people who joined during the pandemic. Wouldn't it have been better to take a gap year? Asking out of curiosity

  36. @soraiasilva8493

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    I'm first year but I will have to go back home as there is no point on staying away we're all my class are online. I can't afford it anymore 😭

  37. @weronikaanna6307

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    Stop going to uni. They will have to lower the fees. I was supposed to be finished with my MA and I decided to wait until this whole fiasco is over. I am not paying 16,000.00 pounds for on-line lectures and Youtube videos.

  38. @sarahjw1409

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    Paying £9000 a year to go and work 12 hour shifts for free on the front line of the NHS. Students have been forgotten about during this pandemic.

  39. @aniketmajety3795

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    Ah… first world problems. Sounds so silly to us Asians.

  40. @Ke1ko7

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    Not to mention international students have been neglected completely and are still paying 24k for shitty online lectures. That’s an absolute joke

  41. @potty1183

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    Am a uni student, had to take a year out, currently on antidepressants 😕

  42. @andreitcaci4924

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    Students just need to stop paying the fee and take a break from studies. Let all the universities and colleges lose their money or even go bankrupt till they realise what they're doing.

  43. @entaolu1271

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    &^coronavirus come from UK .UK mutant virus infects the world.

  44. @user-rm8by9fm

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    wtf was she wearing

  45. @parekhdhruval6631

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    Covid is a global crisis and therefore everyone at backhome were indoor and their are problem to arranged fees and funding and universities are asking us to pay fees but what shall we do if there are no ways to get finance. Really government should take some action on it.

  46. @fingerscrossed2453

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    It's taken students nearly a year to actually do something.
    Fuck em. All of them. Increase the charges.

  47. @jamesmurray6825

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    Online learning just doesn't work for me. I wonder if they could find a system where those who prefer online learnings stay and those who prefer in person go.

  48. @qwejessable

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    And on top of all this, watch the tories increase tuition in the next couple years to pay off the debt bojo ‘invested’ into lucrative businesses …

  49. @AirMan118

    January 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    I tell you what, the student who live in the accommodation some of them hosting private party mixing with the outsider…and you expect the chain can be ended…am writing this bcs I saw it on their ig's and stuff

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