UK student unions call for Covid refund process to be simplified

Students paying ‘astronomical’ fees while powerless to claim compensation, watchdog toldUniversity students are appealing to the UK’s competition watchdog to help them win compensation for the teaching, campus facilities and accommodation many say they have been denied during the Covid pandemic.A group of 20 student unions including the National Union of Students and those representing students at the UK’s two largest universities, University College London and the Univer