Students receiving a bad deal

Pippa1

Hi Martin - Your TV programme has regularly highlighted the plight of students who continue to receive a poor service from Universities up and down the country but are still expected to pay the £9k a year fees.  We have been advised by Nottingham Trent University that students will still be receiving primarily online tuition this next academic year. Teachers have all been back in their classrooms for quite some time and it is expected that everyone in the UK will have received their Covid jabs by the end of summer, why therefore are students expected to pay these fees but still not be taught on campus. In addition the charges for accommodation have continued to rise with many students forced to take out yearly contracts with landlords despite not using the properties all year round. They are receiving a very poor deal with no-one fighting for their cause.  Please help!

eskbanker

This forum (and especially its savings board!) isn't a viable method of getting messages like this to Martin Lewis, so you'd need to contact him via other channels, such as Twitter.

Pippa1

Oh dear, one gets a tad confused by all of the social media channels. 

kidmugsy

That is indeed a bad deal.  Poor show, as my father's generation would have said.  Does the university offer any justification for its behaviour?

Albermarle

kidmugsy said:

That is indeed a bad deal.  Poor show, as my father's generation would have said.  Does the university offer any justification for its behaviour?

Those huge vice chancellors salaries have to be paid somehow .

kidmugsy

Albermarle said:

kidmugsy said:

That is indeed a bad deal.  Poor show, as my father's generation would have said.  Does the university offer any justification for its behaviour?

Those huge vice chancellors salaries have to be paid somehow .

Not to mention the salaries of the armies of pen-pushers and grievance-mongers.

JamoLew

I posted this on 12th June in another thread and it is still valid - maybe look at the time and effort lecturers are putting into making sure that you still get as good as education as possible given tthe circumstances.

Sure, different establishments will differ in quality BUT:

In actuality - the work involved for the admin staff and lecturers is way more to provide online lectures.

Everything has to be redone into a format that is suitable for this method of delivery - so lecturers have actually been working significantly harder/longer hours to facilitate this.

And all for a 0% pay rise and no gratitude from anyone that they are at least making an effort to continue the delivery of education

Trust me, the vast majority of Uni staff don't want to be delivering this way either and bills/wages still need to be paid

** My wife is a Uni lecturer for a Medical based qualification, so I have a lot of first hand knowledge on this


the latest info I have is that from September teaching will be 75/25 attendance/online

Bravepants

University lecturing jobs consist of 50% teaching, 50% research and 50% admin.