Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01807 · Session 5

Compensation for paying university students

Closed Submitted 1 May 2020 Education
Signatures
0
168 online signatures with a country
Comments
3
Considered
2 meetings
in the Official Report

What it asks

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to make funding available for Scottish universities to compensate paying university students for lost class time and a lower quality of education as a result of staff strikes and the COVID-19 crisis.

What the petitioner did first

I have contacted Sandra White MSP.

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 10 Sep 2020
    Public Petitions Committee
    New Petitions
    1 mention
  2. 9 Dec 2020
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention

Signatures by country

168 online signatures
  1. Scotland88 52.4%
  2. England23 13.7%
  3. United Kingdom23 13.7%
  4. United States20 11.9%
  5. India4 2.4%
  6. Northern Ireland1 0.6%
  7. Egypt1 0.6%
  8. Spain1 0.6%
  9. Japan1 0.6%
  10. Hungary1 0.6%
  11. 5 other countries5 3%

Comments

3 comments, oldest first
  1. Maria Sondergaard Hansen 1 May 2020
    With Covid-19 and strike action
    - this semester and last
    - I have had approximately 8 weeks worth of classes out of 22. £6500 for that.
  2. Josh Elliott 2 May 2020
    As an English Student at Dundee, I'm paying 9.25k. Education is a service I pay for, yet I'm not recieving any service. Scottish and EU students do not pay any fees. It is completly unfair and is taking advantage of RUK and International students by not providing them with an adequate product.
  3. Meredith Fuller 8 May 2020
    With COVID 19 and Strike action this semester alone, I lost approx 7-8 weeks of teaching. Additionally, as an international student, even after classes and exams were cancelled, I was required to continue to make payments last month and this month (around £2000), despite no assignments, classes, lectures or new material.