“My first year was fully online. There were no in-person classes. We basically just sat in our halls most of the time.”
Laura Maurin, who recently finished her undergraduate law degree at University College London (UCL) and is unhappy about her experience, says her second year did not get much better.
“It was only in my final year that we actually learnt how to be a law student. The first two years we were just completely on our own.”
In the coming days she should learn from a High Court judge whether she has any chance of redress in the form of thousands of pounds in compensation.
Ms Maurin’s claim is part of a test case that could lead to much wider group court action from 100,000 students which could leave UK universities with a collective bill of at least £500m.
The students all say their university education has been disrupted – either by the pandemic or by on-and-off lecturer strikes that have taken place over the past few years.
